Word: boardroom
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Customer motivations vary as much as the bags themselves. "Some clients want to look like footballers' wives, but others are smart businesswomen who want to carry something special into the boardroom," says Jo Trafford, who founded the service with her policeman husband in July. Since then, Trafford has bought nearly $200,000 worth of bags, sourced directly from fashion capitals such as Paris, Milan and New York City. The ever-expanding collection reflects client requests and takes inspiration from Hollywood. Recent additions include the Gucci Indy, which Mischa Barton made last summer's It bag, and five Bow Bags...
Marc Rich, the fugitive U.S. tax cheater famously pardoned by President Clinton earlier this year, has been back in the news--staging a boardroom coup to seize control of one of Switzerland's biggest property-management companies. This corporate drama brought another wave of unwanted attention to Zug, the picturesque and very private town where Rich works. But Zug has a lot more to offer than a chance to spot the elusive financier. Otherwise, why would 19,456 companies and subsidiaries locate offices there...
...Perkins' memoir, the Silicon Valley legend--hardly short of ego--manages that trick, revealing himself in all his "nerdy" glory and lifting the veil on the very good life. He sews dry humor through tales of yachting triumphs, road rallies in expensive cars, tech start-ups and the boardroom coup he instigated at Hewlett Packard. Looking back without rancor or remorse, he has a knack for storytelling that makes him feel like a buddy who never fails to laugh at himself...
...large-scale punitive litigation. Marks’ allegation about roaming bands of hungry musicians is not only prevarication, it’s revisionism; if anything is impeding “working class musicians,” it’s the avarice of the men in the same boardroom where Steven gets his morning muffin. Still graver is the case of Ms. Thomas, a young, single mother who was unable to afford, on a stipend from her tribe, the costly legal counsel of technology experts who might have buttressed her assertion that she was innocent of the RIAA?...
...supposed to be a month of celebration for Airbus. This is the month, after all, when the European airplane manufacturer is finally set to start delivering its chronically overdue super-jumbo, the A380. Instead, the company has hit turbulence again. This time, however, it's not production delays and boardroom infighting, it's news that market regulatory officials are investigating a potentially massive insider trading scandal at EADS, Airbus's parent. According to documents cited in French press accounts, as many as 1,200 people may wind up targeted by legal action, including some of the loftiest members of France...