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...I grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, and as a young kid I would visit the Kimbell Art Museum, designed by Louis I Kahn, built in 1972....
...Jana Hecker, a senior investment banker who acted as a financial adviser to former Wirecard boss Markus Braun has left her job at UniCredit following revelations about the business relationship....
...Today, Andrew Hill, management editor, selects his best mid-year books from the area of business. The full list will be published on Friday but readers have already given their recommendations....
...Carlin Music, which controls the rights to songs by Elvis and David Bowie, is in talks to be sold to Round Hill Music for $250m, according to Bloomberg, while Imagem, which controls rights to songs by artists...
...(Axios) Goldman Sachs partner Eric Muller has decamped to Oak Hill Advisors, where he will expand the alternative asset manager’s private lending business. Muller is expected to join over the summer....
...And I was doing it with Dre.”...
...Pearson gets a lesson in Chinese capital controls For students learning English in China, here are two new phrases to memorise before doing cross-border business: capital controls and trapped cash....
...Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, by Viv Albertine, Faber RRP£14.99 The title encompasses Albertine’s outlook as a London teenager....
...But as a business proposition, it is a trap.” I ask Robert Kyncl about Calacanis’s criticisms. “It’s really tough to keep everyone happy,” he says, as diplomatically as possible....
...A yellow sandstone mansion with the dimensions of a boutique resort sits like a fort on the highest hill, its red-tiled roof visible from the road....
...BMG, the joint venture between Bertelsmann and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is seen as the frontrunner for EMI Music Publishing, which also drew a bid from a group made up of Sony, Mubadala of Abu Dhabi and Raine...
...“It’s a fragile business,” he says, pouring coffee in his caravan. We are in his self-styled “Fort” of Aubervilliers, a dreary suburb that usually gets press coverage for the wrong reasons....
...There is no way round it: to make money, financial groups have to use their capital....
...whom they were doing business....
...Back in 1982 Levitt’s The Marketing Imagination defined a way of looking at the world and doing business in it: an instinctive belief that the route to growth and profit lay in looking outside the business...
...And a willingness to stick with people for the long haul is just the first of a number of clear differences between comedy’s modus operandi and the more fly-by-night practices of, say, the music business...
...They will respond, “Fact: this year’s 3D films are doing big business . Fact: in the UK the 3D version of Bolt outgrossed the 2D version by more than three to one....
...The best managers and educators will understand that there is much they can learn from this cohort, as well as the other way round....
...Roger Ailes, its president, was doing “a fantastic job” which Mr Murdoch hoped he would keep doing “as long as he lives.” “He’s not going anywhere....
...But somehow, I don’t want to pay 99 cents for a music download…People don’t like paying for digital products.” Mr Rampell, a 27-year-old entrepreneur, has built a business on this insight....
...As the private equity groups entered the second round of bidding for yet another huge leveraged buy-out – the $16bn (£8bn, €12bn) purchase of Cadbury Schweppes’ US drinks business – the deal kept getting...
...One business that does use it is Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein which has round 4000 people on IM....
...Observer can reproduce only a small part of this ditty - to be sung to the tune of American Pie - doing the rounds of finance houses via e-mail....
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