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...Rothschild’s eldest daughter Hannah has emerged as his heir apparent. She is director of RIT, chair of Yad Hanadiv and has followed in his footsteps as trustee and then chair of the National Gallery....
...A novice designer with a bold design and a historic collection of Asian shrubs found financial backers, talented collaborators and sensitive and able heirs....
...But this year the heir apparent to the $710bn business that includes the BNSF railroad, private jet operator NetJets and insurer Geico, as well as the other public and private groups Berkshire has invested...
...Yet even then there was no doubt that if any contemporary painter deserved to be regarded as the heir to Leonardo and Michelangelo, it was Saville....
...An age of burgeoning bourgeois comfort for many, this was also an age of intense and bitter cold, the so-called Little Ice Age, when the Thames froze over and Mary Evelyn, wife of the diarist John, complained...
...Family businesses have strange dynamics, particularly around the selection of an heir. At least Oedipus didn’t have to win his father’s backing as his named successor....
...A former KPMG director said the current system was “appallingly outdated and probably the biggest cause of attrition and staff discontent”....
...Likewise the gamer and the Instagrammer are heirs to the patience player and stamp collector of 150 years ago. Another continuity is the anxiety that all this innocuous activity has prompted....
...Some at the bank now put Ms Piepszak in the category of possible heirs to the 63-year-old Mr Dimon, alongside Marianne Lake, who moved from chief financial officer to head JPMorgan’s cards and consumer lending...
...The elevation of Mr Ybarra positions him as a potential successor to Mr Corbat....
...From Elizabeth I to the earls of Leicester and Essex, Walter Raleigh and Mary Sidney, if you were an aspirational Elizabethan, you had your portrait painted in miniature....
...The heir apparent is Mary Lou McDonald, 48, the deputy party leader and an MP for central Dublin, but observers believe Mr Adams will remain a powerful force in the republican movement whenever he stands...
...His heir apparent is Mary Lou McDonald, 48, the MP for Dublin Central who has been Sinn Féin’s deputy leader since 2011....
...Appointed to the Fiat board in 1997, at the age of 21, Mr Elkann became head of the family seven years later after the death of his cousin Giovanni, the dynasty’s original appointed heir, and after Gianni...
...Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio’s handpicked heir is to step back from his current role as co-chief executive, after disagreements at the top of the world’s biggest hedge fund....
...Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, by Charlotte Gordon, Hutchinson, RRP£25 / Random House, RRP$30 Although the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter...
...Mary Barra, head of product development, and Grace Lieblein, who is in charge of purchasing, are also in contention to become the industry’s first female chief executive....
...The result is an enjoyable romp that begins with Bess of Hardwick, seething with jealousy at Mary Queen of Scots, who had captured the heart of her husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury....
...Most of us know the story: Mr and Mrs Bennet have no son and heir, but five daughters to dispose of in the uncompromising Georgian marriage market....
...Taylor, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh … were kind of heroes to Christopher Booker and Paul Foot and myself. We wanted to read all their books and know all about them....
...Think of all the blood spilt along the way: Thomas Becket murdered in the cathedral, Simon of Sudbury killed by the peasants, Thomas Cranmer incinerated by Bloody Mary, William Laud beheaded … And now an...
...In the October issue of the Harvard Business Review Anne Mulcahy, former CEO of Xerox, described how hard she had found it to “give up power and accountability” to Ursula Burns, her preferred successor....
...Mr Dimon’s surprise decision to oust Mr Winters and elevate Jes Staley, a 30-year employee of JPMorgan, to the role of the investment banking chief and de facto heir apparent is a bold one....
...Neither William of Orange’s consort, Mary, nor his successor, Queen Anne, had been able to produce an heir, so by 1714 the crown was once again up for grabs....
...First Coca-Cola promoted Mary Minnick, head of Asian operations, to a more powerful global role overseeing marketing and innovation....
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