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...At lunch as in business, Nelson Peltz makes his preferences known....
...But what is really funny is that Bob Mankoff drew it in 1981. Do you think history repeats? Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...In a conventional truck — one with a combustion engine — “flooring it” is frowned upon as doing so can flood the engine with gas. But I’m in a Rivian....
...This turned out to be a working-class Wharton graduate from Monticello named Robert Kapito. But when Rosh Hashana arrived, it emerged that Kapito was as Jewish as the rest of the desk....
...Now Bob Iger, who has led Disney as chief executive for more than a decade, is the one who has had to stretch....
...As part of the offer, Moonves wants to put his own lieutenants in senior roles, sidelining Viacom leaders, including its chief executive Bob Bakish....
...Soldiers continued to round up allies of the 93-year-old president, Robert Mugabe, as member states of the Southern African Development Community called on the army to avoid an “unconstitutional” change...
...James did not always seem destined for a career in the family business....
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...Mr Pittman said: “When William [Eccleshare] took on his worldwide role as leader of Clear Channel Outdoor, one of his main missions was to put in place the right leader for our Americas business — and with...
...Bob Greifeld, Nasdaq’s chief executive, may live in a world of bulls and bears, he told a class from New York University Stern School of Business at their recent graduation, but his passion is for turtles...
...Mr Iger began putting the pieces in place for a Disney revival as soon he was told by the board that he would replace Mr Eisner, contacting Mr Jobs and expressing an interest in doing a deal....
...“Compared to doing business in Venezuela, this is easy.” In addition to the federal ban, the tangle of local laws that regulate marijuana is complex and often vague....
...But Tesla has moved beyond simply demonstrating an alternative way of doing business. It is keen to bring the incumbents round to its way of thinking....
...But Ross McEwan, Royal Bank of Scotland’s chief executive, last week played down the risk for the bank and said it could adapt to ensure it continued doing business on both sides of the border....
...Three chief executives – Bob Diamond at Barclays, Piet Moerland at Rabobank and David Caplin at broker RP Martin – lost their jobs as a direct result of the affair....
...… Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less, by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao, Random House Business, RRP£14.99/ Crown Business, RRP$26 The two Stanford professors tackle one of...
...A moribund M&A market makes it easier for the avuncular Mr Roberts to continue doing what all savvy bosses of unfavoured businesses do: give sell-side analysts some of what they want, a little slower than...
...The aim was to create an equities business as part of an integrated investment bank along American lines, to be known as Barclays de Zoete Wedd (BZW)....
...He sought to improve morale by giving business-unit heads more autonomy and increasing content budgets....
...Robert Greifeld, Nasdaq chief executive, has pointed to the Prada initial public offering, which chose Hong Kong, and Glencore, which chose Hong Kong and London, as evidence that New York is losing its appeal...
...has now moved to Robert W....
...While companies such as Nielsen and Omniture provide some ways of doing this, they give an incomplete picture of online behaviour....
...“Most people in big business – they live in strata,” he says: “I’m a hut fanatic.”...
...The choice of Robert Bob Diamond as its next chief executive puts the seal on the recovery....
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