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...Among many with whom she worked were Yvonne Rainer, Joan Jonas, Robert Wilson, Robert Whitman and Philip Glass. “It felt like a new departure with people trusting in each other’s talents,” she says....
...He used the frontispieces of all these incredible books to make it – Shakespeare plays, Walt Whitman and Ruskin. I keep it in my living room....
...market to bin lorries and fire engines also attracted investment from the Reuben and Barclay families, as well as from Alexander Delal, whose property company helped bankroll Dominic Chappell’s takeover of Philip...
...Mr Sprecher said on a conference call that there were similarities between the two businesses and added he had sought the advice of eBay’s then-chief executive Meg Whitman 20 years ago about building an...
...“In the past they haven’t marked down stock, preferring to whack it in a warehouse,” said Tony Shiret at Whitman Howard....
...Like its poet laureate Walt Whitman, New York contains multitudes; like its guardian angel, Satan, it is legion....
...This was an approach that Arcadia chairman Philip Green, a retailer to whom Mr Ashley is sometimes compared, often took in his early days, buying job lots of stock and selling them quickly....
...(FT) ECB musical chairs The formal process to replace Peter Praet as chief economist of the European Central Bank begins today, with Irish central bank governor Philip Lane being a strong favourite for...
...“There have clearly have been major changes to the Rowe strategy, however they dress it up,” said Tony Shiret, an analyst at Whitman Howard who has followed the company for many years....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.7 per cent to 23,590.83, while the Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.1 per cent to 6,862.48 Intraday The main event today is the Budget, with the chancellor Philip Hammond...
...Tony Shiret, a retail analyst at Whitman Howard pointed to two problems for the industry....
...“A step-change is needed in pace,” Sir Philip told the Financial Times....
...First, business leaders such as Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, who have both lost elections, did not seem to grasp that holders of political office have less control over events than does a chief executive...
...Whitman and White are shown in more restricted scope, staccato glimpses of larger stories....
...It is a Walt Whitman poem come to life, intimate and expansive, enraptured by New York and its endless possibilities. The writer is author of ‘What They Teach You at Harvard Business School’...
...Like Walt Whitman, The Econocracy contains multitudes....
...He recognises Ginsberg’s debt to Whitman, and he is moved by Whitman. There are other surprises....
...Carillion’s chief executive, Richard Howson, and chairman Philip Green were also expected to keep their roles in the newly formed group, with Mr Marshall taking the role of deputy chairman....
...Stephen Rawlinson, analyst at Whitman Howard, said Carillion had now gone as “far as it could go before its own shareholders shout ‘stop’”....
...Created at a Startup Weekend in Los Angeles in March last year, Zaarly quickly caught the eyeof investors and within six months had raised $14m and had Meg Whitman, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard...
...Film I Found It at the Movies: Reflections of a Cinephile, by Philip French, Carcanet Press, RRP£19.95, 292 pages Before the internet, there was Observer film critic Philip French – a storehouse mind containing...
...Jim Collins’ Good to Great – the choice, among others, of Meg Whitman of eBay and Gerard Kleisterlee of Philips – has to be on the list, as does one book by Peter Drucker....
...Meg Whitman, president and chief executive officer, eBay • Good to Great, by Jim Collins...
...philip.coggan@ft.com...
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