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...Constellation’s flagship Robert Mondavi Winery, once the jewel in Napa’s crown and global pioneer of smart wine tourism, is currently a messy building site while being redesigned. Very un-Napa....
...Of course, there’s an outlandish alternative proposed by the FT’s Robert Shrimsley: “We are going to have to nationalise Chelsea.”...
...The first claim is an antidote to the pessimistic view that we have run out of important discoveries, associated with economist Robert Gordon’s analysis of the secular productivity decline....
...Smart reads Front-page dealmaking Axel Springer’s purchase of Politico made Robert Allbritton one of the most successful media investors of this century....
...Job moves Brian Sheth, who co-founded Vista Equity Partners alongside Robert Smith, is leaving the software buyout group....
...Their valuation was also well below the ¥853-per-share value calculated in mid-2014 by Duff & Phelps — a widely used valuation firm that the defendants excluded from the process....
...He will be replaced by Simon Roberts, head of retail and operations, in June. Full tale here....
...However, others, such as Robert Shiller, are starting to draw on anthropology — check out his excellent new work Narrative Economics for an example of this. I hope that more will follow....
...Mr Hall’s team, which includes Robert Capper, a former British intelligence officer based at GCHQ, also provides its services to law firms on cases that Burford has not financed....
...Job moves Richard Olson, the head of Duff & Phelps’ European secondary market business has left the US corporate finance advisory firm....
...Dechert, the law firm, has hired Robert Darwin as a partner. He joins from Hogan Lovells....
...” – Sensible from the WSJ: “I hate to sound like a disloyal human being, but in the upcoming race between Michael Phelps and a Great White Shark, I am picking the shark....
...Last year, for example, Venezuela-born Patricia Phelps de Cisneros made a sizeable gift to New York’s Museum of Modern Art....
...It is superficially appealing to cast Mr Roberts as the victim of a feminist witch hunt....
...Libel lawyers acting for Sir Philip Green have demanded an apology after MP Frank Field likened the retail tycoon’s conduct to that of Robert Maxwell, the former press baron who plundered the Mirror Group...
...It is the equivalent of watching every NFL game since 2008, according to Brian Roberts, Comcast chief executive....
...Ned Phelps recently told Martin Wolf that “the rise of factories and cities was also a tremendous boon to job satisfaction and intellectual development.”...
...Meanwhile, Edmund Phelps, director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University, gave a gloomy assessment for global prospects....
...After Rehnquist retired, Cruz asked his successor, John Roberts, if he could wear his boots....
...Professors at the first event include Charles Murphy, a former investment banker and Robert Whitelaw, chair of Stern’s finance department. Email forthcoming events to charlotte.clarke@ft.com...
...Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change, by Edmund Phelps, Princeton, RRP£19.95/$29.95 Phelps, a Nobel laureate in economics, defies categorisation....
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com...
...He has since interviewed guests from Michael Phelps to Mitt Romney but his ratings have fallen as CNN struggles to compete with Fox News to its right politically and MSNBC to its left....
...Rupert Phelps, a 40-year-old banker, is a fan....
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