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...Their propensity to vote shares held for clients is above average, noted Lucian Bebchuk of Harvard Law School and Scott Hirst of Boston University....
...Please send feedback to due.diligence@ft.com...
...Theresa Sackler, the widow of Mortimer Sackler, is on the V&A’s board of trustees until the end of the month....
...Researchers from Bristol and Cardiff universities have examined some of these raw materials....
...In 2015, for example, Amazon dropped the use of non-competes for its warehouse staff following media reports....
...“SoftBank is trying to overhaul Google’s and Amazon.com’s dominance in big data,” said a venture capitalist close to SoftBank’s Mr Son....
...Amin Rajan, chief executive of Create Research, pinpoints the UK flotation of Lastminute.com in March 2000 as a jarring moment....
...With due respect to Mr Trump, empirical research by Caroline Flammer, now at Boston University, found US companies facing intense pressure from rivals did not ditch their social engagement, they increased...
...Universities in and around LA train more software engineers than in any other major metropolitan area in the US, including Silicon Valley and Boston....
...Its wood shelves are stocked with 5,000 to 6,000 titles, best-sellers as well as Amazon.com customer favorites....
...East Coast entrepreneurs New York, Boston and Providence, Rhode Island are ahead of San Francisco in terms of entrepreneurial activity, according to the Kauffman Foundation....
...the big studios, but the streaming service Amazon....
...For the full report, go to www.ft.com/ethnic-diversity. (Methodology at bottom of list.) Ranking 1. Muhtar Kent Chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company 2....
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...Last week Vox Media, home of the Vox.com news site helmed by Ezra Klein, closed its latest funding round at a valuation of $380m....
...Amazon isn’t in the business of doing moonshots. They’re in the business of moving stuff around, and it starts in the warehouse.”...
...Starting, perhaps, on the next occasion you swipe a bar code – or place an order on Amazon – with such deceptive, seductive ease. gillian.tett@ft.com...
...This may complicate life for makers of driverless cars: because of legal uncertainties and hugely variable driving environments, “self-driving” is likely to be offered as an optional setting for decades...
...As citizens of Boston download the app and drive around, their phones automatically notify City Hall of the need to repair the road surface....
...“The cost of point-to-point [instant delivery] – taking a product from a warehouse in the middle of nowhere to somewhere – is prohibitively high at Amazon.”...
...Keith Hylton, professor of law at Boston University, said that, until the launch of the “agency” model in early 2010, Amazon had created a “monopsonistic” market, with one dominant buyer and several sellers...
...Apollo Group , the owner of the University of Phoenix, the largest US for-profit college, was among the worst-performing stocks on the main market, falling8.5 per cent to $39.54....
...Yet today the US sends away tens of thousands of foreigners each year who have qualified from American universities with science and engineering degrees....
...Mr Mason, who had just started at the University of Chicago after winning a scholarship to study public policy and the internet, became convinced that social networks could provide a network to enable similarly...
...Amazon was rather late to the game. E-book readers began appearing at the end of the 1990s....
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