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...July 22, General Electric announced a string of deals with the Mubadala Development Company, a government-controlled investment fund in the tiny Persian Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi. Among other things, GE and Mubadala pledged to invest $8 billion in a joint venture to sell financial products in the Middle East and Africa. Ultimately, said Mubadala, it plans to be one of GE's 10 largest investors...
Sitting in his book-strewn office in the Collège de France opposite the Sorbonne, the white-haired Fumaroli is frank about the criticism. "The Friends of the Louvre is a milieu that is both cultured and demanding, and it easily gets into a bad mood," he says. There's particular concern about the way the museum is sending out its treasures. "Some think there is excessive exportation," is how he puts it - especially when money seems to be the primary motive...
...digital media company such as Google (which owns YouTube) or Apple. "The Weather Channel would add some icing to the cake," says Nicholas Heymann, an analyst for Sterne Agee & Leach. As syndication fees have evaporated and profit margins have thinned, TV companies have become less attractive assets. GE "has to start lighting a fire under its stock," notes Heymann...
...good as you do well. That's the message of this wise book by the former general counsel of GE. Heineman's goal is to keep CEOs out of the Hall of Shame--no one wants to be the next Jeff Skilling. "The generals will be held to even higher standards than the troops," Heineman warns. But even if chieftains follow his comprehensive blueprint for integrity, Heineman believes that perfection, alas, is unattainable: "We don't need, and won't get, saints in our corner offices." But CEOs, he argues, must learn to walk the walk, as well as talk...
...Henin has good reason to be proud. Born in Liège, in the run-down former industrial heart of Belgium, Henin has struggled with adversity throughout her career, and her life. If she seemed to display an earnest, almost haunted demeanor on court, it perhaps reflected her checkered childhood growing up in the pretty Ardennes village of Marloie. She lost her mother to cancer when she was just 12; her father, José, had to bring up his children on a postman's salary...