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...One we missed: DisneyWar, by James B Stewart. Update: The boardroom conflicts at ExxonMobil over climate change and the future of fossil fuels have only intensified since Private Empire was published....
...Join us on October 17 at the Biltmore Mayfair in London as we gather the biggest names in M&A, private equity and corporate finance from Thoma Bravo’s Orlando Bravo to KKR’s Tara Davies....
...It features paintings, sculptures, textile installations and digital and video pieces by artists from around the globe, including Brook Andrew, Sonia Boyce and Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe....
...Stylist’s assistant, Timothy Brooks. Production, Naomi Elliot at Seven Six...
...Justerini & Brooks now imports the wines of Walter Scott, Berry Bros & Rudd has Lingua Franca and Corney & Barrow has 00 Wines....
...But Thomas Rose, a property adviser to several major leisure operators and developers, said that despite gym and leisure companies actively looking for sites, there were still too many to fill....
...Fenbeitong’s round was led by Silicon Valley-based fintech venture firm Ribbit Capital and Paul Hudson’s growth equity firm Glade Brook Capital....
...It’s a classic, plain white shirt by Thomas Pink and I had this big “B” embroidered on the pocket in a swirly font. I found it hanging on the back of something else, and it’s still in mint condition....
...Which business leader revealed this year that his favourite business book was a collection of articles by the New Yorker writer John Brooks lent to him by Warren Buffett?...
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...Norwegian by Night , by Derek B Miller, Faber, RRP£12.99 Bostonian writer Derek B Miller’s discursive but richly written Norwegian by Night‘s Jewish-American anti-hero is the 82-year-old Sheldon, fearing...
...“Human nature,” John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson, “in no form of it, could ever bear prosperity.”...
...REM weren’t the first band to shake the world from Athens – The B-52s preceded them – but they founded Athens’ reputation as a music town, not least by identifying their art with it so closely (the title...
...Thomas Nutt’s Humanity to Honey Bees (1832), dedicated to William IV’s consort, Queen Adelaide, declared that since “no colony of bees deprived of its queen, ever prospers or long survives such loss” he...
...De Chardin might be characterised as a sort of Thomas Friedman for the religiously-inclined....
...Leave the village south through St Margaret’s churchyard, then along the B-roads through Wiveton and up to Wiveton Downs for a rare panorama of the region....
...Fortunately, Luyuan had a plan B: a former colleague had offered her a chance to run a fruit stand with him in Shanghai....
...Would you say that a market cap of the Blackstone management company north of $40 billion would be (a) plausible and (b) reasonable?...
...Busch IV, President, Anheuser-Busch Brook Byers, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers Lisa Caputo, Senior Financial Executive Tom Castro, President, El Dorado Communications Vinton G....
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