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...Sir Terry Leahy was widely feted on his 2010 departure from Tesco for quadrupling pre-tax profit and driving global expansion....
...Lez Brotherston’s Wendy-house sets channel Bo Welch’s film designs but he shifts the action from the 1980s to the 1950s, allowing him to unleash his inner Doris Day with dance-friendly petticoats and skintight...
...The London-based stylist, who has worked with Jared Leto and Alfie Allen, co-founded the recently formed Celebrity Stylists Union in the hope of establishing “fair” minimum rates, transparency and deals...
...Jack Welch at GE and Terry Leahy at Tesco both failed the test based on share price post-exit; likewise Alex Ferguson based on the performance of Manchester United on the pitch after he left....
...Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek (Basic Books) Founded in 1958 by businessman Robert Welch, the John Birch Society was so fiercely anticommunist and...
...Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of General Electric by William D Cohan, Allen Lane £35/Portfolio $40, 816 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...This is a heavyweight cautionary tale about how the reputation of one-time corporate titans such as Jack Welch can be floored by over-reach and ambition....
...“I struggle to understand why locking in the lowest possible rate of return is a good idea,” GM’s Allen Reed told Institutional Investor....
...The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruptionby Sebastian Mallaby, Allen Lane £25/Penguin Press $30 Mallaby traces the venture capital industry revolution from its origins in the 1950s through...
...Terry Green is one of tens or maybe hundreds of thousands of people in England who call themselves Gipsies or Travellers....
...Those are the words of Allen Dulles, the American statesman who began his career spying on Nazis in Switzerland, and told his minions to unplug the wretched receiver during sensitive conversations — or better...
...Advised by blue-chip names Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Allen & Overy, it launched what it called a “pre-IPO” funding round....
...In July they filed criminal tax fraud charges against the Trump Organization and its longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg....
...I enjoyed long games with the late Broadway producer Terry Allen Kramer in New York, on Harbour Island and in London – and Dennis Hopper was an entertaining competitor too....
...Clifford Chance has hired Michael Welch as counsel in its US structured finance team. He joins the firm’s Washington, DC office from Chapman and Cutler. Sidley Austin elected 28 new partners....
...It was a privilege to have worked with Terry O’Neill and I remember thinking that at the time, all those years ago. Richard Allen Como, Italy...
...The narrative of how it got there begins with a messy and costly settlement in 2005-06 of a legal battle with the financier Terry Smith, which Barber had inherited....
...Letter in response to this article: Letter: Terry O’Neill nailed the shot every time / From Richard Allen, Como, Italy...
...“They might have had rushed training from other parties at the start of the smart rollout,” said Mr Welch....
...That happened to Jack Welch of General Electric and Terry Leahy of Tesco, the UK retailer. Mr Welch took GE into financial services that later undermined the company....
...Dorset; T Alderson, Stevenage; Amanda Riddle, Essex Polymath 1,003: R Rutter, Shropshire Crossword 16,052: Trevor Mason, Hertford; Gareth Daves, Newport; Charles Barraclough, London Polymath 1,002: Terry...
...The US thinks the UK’s limited acceptance of Huawei is a “craven surrender”, while Foxconn founder Terry Gou is back at the helm....
...UK supermarket chain Tesco struggled mightily after the 2011 departure of Terry Leahy: under Philip Clarke, it ditched Sir Terry’s much-touted US expansion, lost market share to discounters and later suffered...
...That change at the top followed the eruption of problems that had their roots in the tenure of Mr Lewis’s much-garlanded predecessor Sir Terry Leahy....
...The Internet of (Six) Things #Taipei — Foxconn's future Kathrin Hille reports from Taiwan that Terry Gou, the 68-year-old entrepreneur who started Foxconn with $7,500 in 1974 and now employs nearly 1m...
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