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...The firm raised over $1bn and received backing from SAC’s owner Steven Cohen. It raised billions of dollars more after its launch on the back of strong returns between 2014 and 2021....
...He has frequently faced internal opposition to his hardline stances from other Trump aides, including Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary....
...“They’ve got a lot more operating chops than they did 12 years ago,” says University of Chicago professor Steven Kaplan....
...Ali Carter, economic development co-ordinator in Arlington, said the town of about 45,000 decided to act after 17 units on a single block were left unoccupied....
...The R-rated film about a murderous mentally ill man made $1.1bn in box-office sales on a modest $55m production budget, shocking executives across Hollywood....
...Solus’s stance matches that of Vornado Realty Trust, a fund run by billionaire investor Steven Roth, which has ignored worker representatives’ emails....
...Toys R Us workers who lost their jobs when the heavily indebted retailer collapsed are talking to two buyout firms about a possible hardship fund — but a third, billionaire investor Steven Roth’s Vornado...
...In the last financial year, it has saved £170m through the use of three biosimilars — well on the way to a goal set by Simon Stevens, head of the health service in England, to save £300m from this approach...
...That is a legitimate worry: private equity has a history of reducing R&D when the debt loads are high....
...(FT) Japan Inc goes global for M&A advice Only three domestic brokerages rank among the top-ten deal advisers in Japan during the third quarter. Why is Japan Inc looking for foreign advice?...
...In a new book, Stealing Fire, he and Steven Kotler lead a mind-blowing tour along the path from sex and drugs to R&D....
...Vendors have to come up with their own design, so have to spend a lot on R&D,” she says....
...“This opens the potential to fundamentally change the economics of R&D,” says Prof Workman....
...Steven Carter, Mouterre-sur-Blourde, France Any openings at the FT for a burnt-out teacher?...
...Graphics by Federica Cocco and Steven Bernard....
...Meanwhile, the company’s R&D as a percentage of sales, which has been falling since 2001, is creeping ever lower....
...Disney had endured a similar experience in 2012 with John Carter, a fantasy adventure which, on paper — and with Wall-E director Andrew Stanton in the chair — looked like the beginning of a sure-fire franchise...
...Little surprise, in a world getting to grips with the logic of “r > g”, that we should not expect the benefits to be equally shared....
...Spotify also claims real scale for its most popular artists, noting that R andom Access Memories had been streamed 300m times since its release in May....
...She trained as a lawyer in Paris and, in her early twenties, was hired by the late British Master of Wine Kit Stevens to look after his sixth-floor walk-up office in Paris while he went off to New Zealand...
...… The Strangler Vine , by Miranda Carter, Fig Tree, RRP£14.99/ Putnam Adult, RRP$26.95 Carter’s rip-roaring debut novel takes us to the India of the 1830s, where the violent Thugee sect are at large....
...The costs of those new products are already rising, with R&D expenses jumping 33 per cent year-on-year to $1.1bn in the quarter, up from 2 to 3 per cent of net sales....
...asks Carter Lusher at Ovum, the consultancy, in reference to the executive turmoil at HP and its underspending on R&D....
...Steven Veldhoen of Booz & Co, which has studied innovation in China, says that while junior staff may be 25 to 30 per cent cheaper than in the US or Europe, middle managers cost as much, and senior managers...
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