Hints and tips:
...“The barbarians are at the gate,” says Anne-Valérie Corboz, associate dean of executive education at HEC Paris....
...Luke Johnson, former chair of the collapsed café group Patisserie Valerie, will maintain a 15 per cent stake in the business, with Bain Capital’s credit unit and a hospitality fund called EBITDA Investments...
...French jewellery designer Valérie Messika, for example, built her business by marketing diamonds as “fun” — thus encouraging self-purchase....
...Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has appointed Navdeep Bains, Canada’s former minister of innovation, science and industry, as its new vice-chair of global investment banking....
...Like BHS, Carillion and Patisserie Valerie before it, the failure of Thomas Cook in September raised questions about whether auditors were too close to the client to spot red flags....
...“It’s hard not to be disappointed in the stock, not only from a profit standpoint but also execution standpoint,” says Valerie Newell, chairman of Riverpoint Capital, a Cincinnati-based advisory firm that...
...“The stakes are far too high for us to be working against one another,” Valerie Jarrett, Mr Obama’s adviser, wrote to the Chamber of Commerce, a big business lobby....
...Additional reporting by Ben Bain...
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