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...Conan’s name was always in the news, his strikes at NBC were always topical. This type of humor stood in contrast to his usually irreverent and irrelevant style, such as firing wax replicas of movie stars out of cannons and knocking over a domino stack of Domino??s pizza employees...
...five percent of his class. After school, Romney played the whiz kid at the management-consulting firm, Bain & Company, where he fixed failing companies. Six years later, Bill Bain tapped Romney to lead the private equity firm, Bain Capital. There, Romney helped build household names like Staples, Domino??s Pizza, and the Sports Authority. During his tenure, Romney returned an average annualized return of 113 percent—nothing short of spectacular...
...started in pinstripes, most notably as the founder of the private equity firm Bain Capital. His eye for markets—invisible to conventional wisdom—spurred him to back hopeless startups like Staples, Domino??s Pizza, and Sports Authority. CEO Romney grew an initial $37 million and seven-person staff to an impressive $4 billion and 115-person staff. During his fourteen-year tenure, Romney averaged an annual internal rate of return on realized investments of 113 percent...
...make the connection, though, was a pivotal moment in his life. At the age of 17, Boyd had ambitions to be a baseball player, but failed to make the cut as a starter for his high school team. Disappointed, he wandered off and by chance heard Fats Domino??s music coming through a window.“It was the same thing that I listened to in my room, except newer,” Boyd says. In that moment, everything clicked, and he realized that he wanted to become a producer.“The thing that...
...being Thomas Lenk’s “Stratification 21a.” The title may sound more like a math class than a work of art, but the piece has an appeal that transcends mere mathematical experimentation. Lenk has created a vertically arranged “toppled domino?? effect of black squares that twist back behind themselves, creating the most literal manifestation of the exhibit’s title...