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...Elon Musk unveils $46.5bn financing package to fund Twitter bid Buyout group Thoma Bravo talking to Tesla chief about participating in takeover....
...For further reading, I recommend the following piece about the dangers of a domino effect from burnout, written by Thomas Roulet at Cambridge Judge Business School....
...The shortlisted authors for the 2019 Bracken Bower Prize are: Maram Ahmed Alonso de Gortari Jonathan Hillman Yaman Kaakeh Vardhan Kapoor Salil Motianey Katya Peremanova Thomas Roulet Paulo Savaget...
...The uncertain future will send some readers back to history, represented in this year’s longlist by Thomas Levenson’s Money for Nothing....
...Famously featuring the face of Winston Churchill as a kind of Thomas the Tank Engine sun-god amid the symbols of the zodiac, it looks as strange and eccentric as ever....
...The three winners have been invited into the FT offices in central London where they will tour Bracken House and meet the journalists they outwitted with their shrewd stock picks....
...Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat was the inaugural winner of the award in 2005....
...Next year, the FT will be part of the office take-up data: closing the doors to its home on the south bank of the Thames to move to a new home in the City at Bracken House....
...The most important book about income distribution probably in the last 100 years is Capital in the Twenty-First Century [winner of the 2014 award] by Thomas Piketty, someone who has led a revolution in...
...Clearfield and Tilcsik won the FT and McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for budding younger business authors in 2015. Meltdown evolved from their winning proposal....
...Among longlisted authors are Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft; Thomas Friedman, who won the inaugural award 12 years ago with The World is Flat; and Nobel prizewinner Jean Tirole....
...Crystalline cobwebs are swagged over frosted bracken fronds and along the barbed wire strung above drystone walls....
...Dinner includes delicious crab from Sarclet, another former fishing haven on the trail where pioneering engineer Thomas Telford first suggested building a harbour in 1790....
...● At the same ceremony in New York, Dominic Barton, McKinsey’s global managing director, awarded the £15,000 Bracken Bower Prize for young business writers to Christopher Clearfield and András Tilcsik...
...The 2014 winner was Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty....
...The prize, first presented in 2005 to Thomas Friedman for The World is Flat, is now in its 11th edition....
...Charlie Bracken, Liberty’s chief financial officer, said last month that the company would only look to buy mobile operators in countries where it had a “national footprint”....
...The £30,000 prize was awarded to Thomas Piketty’s controversial economics bestseller following what Lionel Barber, FT editor and chairman of judges, said was a “vigorous debate” about “an incredibly strong...
...For the first time this year, the FT and McKinsey are also backing a new award, the Bracken Bower Prize, for the best proposal by an author aged under 35....
...Forty per cent of entrants – and all three finalists – for the new Bracken Bower Prize for business writers under 35, launched by the FT and McKinsey this year, were women....
...Apart from Bracken House, no City postwar commercial building has been listed, despite potential candidates, such as the Aviva Tower, being considered....
...It is a natural crater several metres deep, almost round and encircled by bracken....
...Follow the Shropshire Way through the sheep-grazed bracken to the Mynd’s highest point at Pole Bank....
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