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FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024
Business Book of the Year Award 2024: winners pick their favourites
...Brad Stone, ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ (2013) Favourite: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr, by Ron Chernow....
April 22, 2024
The Big Read
How China’s military is slowly squeezing Taiwan
...“Then you’d have to probably take more specific actions to deter that specific action at a specific time and place.”...
July 24, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
FT SeriesFestive food and drink special 2022
How Americans ruined tequila — and the true believers saving it
...His name was Vern Underwood Sr, and I’m on the phone with his son. “You’ve given me a tough assignment,” Vern Underwood Jr says when I ask how Americans originally bought in. Underwood Jr is now 83....
November 17, 2022
The Big Read
Franklin Templeton: an old-school stockpicker tries to reinvent itself
...“The story was, you’d spend 10 minutes on business and 30 on hockey in a 40-minute meeting,” he says....
January 26, 2023
HTSI
Inside Glenmorangie’s dazzling new distillery
...But I get the impression that, just occasionally, really V, V, VIPs may be given a glimpse within....
September 2, 2021
HTSI
Alice Waters, my superchef mother
...“Dissecting my feelings about a given food into its constituent parts paradoxically had the effect of making me like almost everything.”...
June 14, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
FT Magazine
Emily Thornberry: ‘Britain has disappeared into the Brexit black hole’
...Thornberry Sr was a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; in 2007, Thornberry Jr voted against the renewal of Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons....
September 14, 2018
Lunch with the FT
David Rockefeller Jr: ‘Does happiness come from material wealth?’
...“I’d love it if we could create Rockefeller Democrats who’d be close to the centre, who’d believe in the importance of government and the importance of business and the importance of the NGO sector working...
February 16, 2018
FT MagazineJancis Robinson
Margaret River Chardonnay: an alternative to white burgundy
...That 2013 Flower Day wine had the intensity you’d expect of a top Grand Cru white burgundy....
January 12, 2018
Technology sector
Insights and inspiration from four tech entrepreneurs
...SR: My iPhone (obviously) but also my Jura Ena 9 (greatest bean-to-cup coffee machine on earth). CT: I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t my iPhone....
June 7, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Book review: Could Have Would Have Should Have
...The urge often starts early: restaurateur Michael Chow collected Soviet stamps as a boy; David Rockefeller Sr collected beetles at the age of 10....
September 30, 2016
InterviewUS race relations
Race divides Dallas despite police progress
...Up the block, after a vigil for the shooting victims, Isaiah Turman, 23, said he’d never had a problem with police....
July 10, 2016
US & Canadian companies
Privacy palls for foodmaker Mars in digital age
...That is unsurprising, given that its secrecy has drawn comparisons to the reclusive Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory....
October 7, 2015
Entrepreneurship
How does one make it as a business pioneer?
...The judges felt the fashion industry, given its size and worldwide influence, should be represented too, and thought Coco Chanel and Miuccia Prada were its pioneering figures....
March 31, 2015
Climate change
Business pioneers in energy
...This article has been amended to carry the correct picture of John D Rockefeller Sr. A previous version displayed a picture of John D Rockefeller Jr....
March 31, 2015
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
InterviewLunch with the FT
Lunch with the FT: David Rubenstein
...He and his co-founders Dan D’Aniello and Bill Conway chose the name because it sounded British and opulent and everything they were not....
March 22, 2013
InterviewLunch with the FT
Lunch with the FT: Nancy Pelosi
...It appears that she hasn’t asked for, or been given, a special spot....
May 17, 2013
FT AlphavilleEquities
Guest post from OWS: Too Big to Fail is Too Big to Ignore
...Limits should furthermore be imposed on the exposure of a given bank to a particular institution or set of institutions....
January 31, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
The secret history
...This “first coup d’état” was not Ghana’s last. Several decades would pass before the country regained its course....
July 20, 2012
US politics & policy
Romney brushes aside GOP rivals
...“I think Romney weakens himself,” she said, adding that given his previous stewardship of a neighbouring state, “there is something seriously wrong” if he doesn’t win more than 50 per cent of votes in New...
January 8, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
How to be president
...New research into the importance of emotion, cognitive biases and language in elections is given scant attention....
July 20, 2012
Lunch with the FT
Lunch with the FT: Zbigniew Brzezinski
...The diminutive Chinese leader was amused when Brzezinski served him from a bottle of Russian vodka he had been given for Christmas by the Soviet ambassador....
January 13, 2012
Middle East protests
Chinese elite face curbs on US visas
...“Given the current climate of cancelled meetings and cancelled US-funded programmes in China, we are reviewing our procedures for approving visas for Chinese officials and their families,” said one US official...
April 26, 2011
US politics & policy
Income levy plan divides richest residents
...Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, and Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, have all given money to the campaign to defeat the measure....
October 27, 2010
ReviewLife & Arts
He’d do it all again
...More space is devoted to his admittedly courageous decision to order the “surge”, the successful counter-offensive led by General David Petraeus which, he argues, has given the fledgling Iraqi democracy...
November 12, 2010

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