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...Among other alumni is Larry Fink, the chair and CEO of BlackRock, who left First Boston in 1986 after his team made a $100mn loss on an incorrect interest rate prediction....
...Robinson played statesman, advising Ronald Reagan on trade policy, but also brawled in some of the hardest-fought Wall Street battles of the day....
...Uber’s 2023 performance marked “quite a turnaround”, said Citi analyst Ronald Josey. “It all comes down to a greater focus within the mobility business . . ....
...In his book McMindfulness, Ronald Purser argues a multi-billion dollar industry has commodified meditation....
...“Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter,” he wrote late on Thursday afternoon, setting off a maelstrom of speculation across media and tech circles about who the billionaire had chosen...
...Among his contracted players pre-de Havilland was a genial minor male lead called Ronald Reagan.)...
...“We need a better process for connecting new generation to the grid,” says Greg Wetstone, the president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy....
...But when CEO Bob Chapek vowed to repeal the law and rethink Disney’s campaign contributions in Florida, he made a new enemy: the state’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis....
...On November 25, I board a plane heading for Nashville, Tennessee, for an audience with Arthur Laffer, the sprightly octogenarian economist who claims credit for President Ronald Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts....
...Wall Street’s legion of ‘forever CEOs’ When it comes to CEO succession on Wall Street, the mantra in boardrooms may well be: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”...
...Matt Whittaker, CEO Pro Bono Economics: More so than in 2023, the answer is likely to vary from family to family....
...During Ronald Reagan’s presidency, Wall Street became one of the most powerful advocates — and beneficiaries — of Reaganomics, and provided many of the foot soldiers for the Reagan revolution....
...I’ve had CEOs crying on my shoulder. It all becomes too much for them to handle alongside running their businesses.”...
...As CEO of Berkshire’s reinsurer General Re from 2001 to 2008, Brandon had risen through the ranks to become one of Buffett’s closest confidantes....
...He then moved to Wall Street to work for investment bank Dillon Read under Nicholas Brady, later Treasury secretary to Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush....
...Last year, Joe Biden surpassed Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan to become the oldest sitting US president....
...And I mean, I’ve heard him talk about energy markets and CEOs who dealt with him has said, often feel we’re dealing with not just the president of a country, but CEO of Russian Energy Inc, that he really...
...Whether corporate America’s cautious support for this “trickle-up” relief package represents a shift in a boardroom consensus that has endured since Ronald Reagan’s presidency is still unclear....
...I also worry about how CEOs can deal with this — you don’t want the CEO spending half of his or her day responding to social concerns. GT: What about protectionism?...
...Accountants are overhauling their systems too: Ronald Cohen revealed startling metrics that he had developed with Harvard Business School about companies’ carbon footprints within “impact-weighted accounting...
...“The state of ESG now is very similar to what the venture capital industry was like when I started four decades ago,” Sir Ronald Cohen, a man dubbed the “father of venture capital” in Europe, told me....
...Smart reads Game of chicken Ronald Cameron owns Mountaire, a chicken producer, and is one of President Donald Trump’s top donors....
...Carly Fiorina, the ex-CEO of Hewlett-Packard who campaigned for the Republican nomination herself in 2016, has announced she will back Joe Biden this time....
...Most of the others — Ursula Burns, Mr Thain, Ronald Sugar — are former executives of public companies. Would these people really challenge another CEO? There are reasons to be sceptical....
...Back in the tax-cutting, deregulating, privatising days of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the question was simple to answer on each side of the Atlantic....
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