Hints and tips:
...“UBS will not risk its own future or culture after all the tough times it went through,” said Chris Roebuck, a former UBS employee who was tasked with helping to integrate the company in the years after...
...Times are hard — the biggest boos of the evening are reserved for “the energy company” — but Mother Goose won’t close her doors to any waif or stray and so, when a discombobulated goose (Cilla Quack) falls...
...Then, earning power was recognised as a sensible basis for public share ownership and companies such as Sears Roebuck became market leaders....
...As a partner in local private equity company, Atman Group, Sangakkara has invested heavily in Sri Lanka’s burgeoning postwar economy....
...The catalogues still drop on to my doormat — Lakeland, the White Company, Cox & Cox, the Cotswold Company — but now they seem more geared to comfortable, unambitious early old age....
...Twenty-five years ago, you might have thought a portfolio containing shares in General Electric and General Motors, ICI, Marks and Spencer, Barclays Bank and Sears Roebuck represented a low-risk, conservative...
...“[For] somebody that is of my generation, Sears Roebuck was a big deal,” he told reporters on Monday, discussing the “sad” news that the retailer had filed for bankruptcy protection....
...Even more astutely, Hill says: “You can very readily see where [the US department store chain] Sears, Roebuck and Company’s business would go if such a plan was perfected.”...
...Richard Sears, one of the founders of Sears Roebuck, put it well: “Honesty is the best policy. I know, I’ve tried it both ways.”...
...It is a step that companies often skip or rush. Mr Blankfein’s farewell note hints at a useful alternative. After a time, ask alumni what they miss most and least about the organisation....
...Arguably the “killer application” of the railroads, the mail order catalog of Sears-Roebuck, didn't arrive until the end of the century, as economist Brad DeLong has argued....
...Yet not enough understand the implications for the workforce, advisers to large companies say....
...Case in point, this letter from EH Bayley, chairman of the largest cab company in London, as published in the Financial Times in 1907....
...Like any equity holder in the company, he has lost more than 90 per cent of his investment since the company’s share price peaked in 2007....
...The tower built by Sears Roebuck in 1970 was controversially renamed in 2009 when insurer Willis rented three storeys of space and paid for the naming rights....
...Chris Roebuck, visiting professor of transformational leadership at Cass Business School London, who has held senior human resource positions at banks, believes that working conditions can be improved by...
...From Sears, Roebuck and Company to Union Pacific, the business world is littered with titans that were ground under by the march of time. The same will happen to the owners of artificial intelligence....
...A Bank of America spokesman said: “He was popular among his peers and was a highly diligent intern at our company with a promising future....
...Compared with the 1890s, Google resembles GE, while Amazon is like Sears Roebuck, the catalogue shopping company that transformed US retailing....
...Instead, it was the lower end of the market – with the kit houses of Sears, Roebuck and Company in the US, and the emergency prefab housing created in postwar Britain during the 1940s – that prevailed, establishing...
...In the current mood almost any bonus is deemed unacceptable,” says Chris Roebuck, visiting professor at Cass Business School in London....
...Soon after, Sears Roebuck & Co paid $1.9bn in cash for it, a 22 per cent premium....
...The listings come as private equity groups have used buoyant equity markets to take portfolio companies public....
...At the end of December, Standard & Poor’s placed its B rating on the company on negative credit watch....
...“The accounting is the excuse investors use when they don’t want to invest,” says Ryan Roebuck, partner at XDR Capital, a hedge fund....
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