Word: lewises
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John Thain's swift departure as head of Bank of America's (BofA) Merrill Lynch unit after a 15-minute dustup with his boss, CEO Ken Lewis, is a consequence of friction that occurs when conflicting business maxims come into contact. And the fact that Thain must really love to...
Thain played by that rule even though he was relatively new to Merrill, having arrived 14 months ago from the New York Stock Exchange. But he infuriated Lewis by paying out a couple of billion bucks in bonuses before the deal had closed and before disclosing to Lewis that Merrill...
In their view, Cheney was something like an unseen hand at the tiller, exerting a steady nudge on Bush's instincts. It wasn't absolute, nor did it come into play on every issue. But across a wide spectrum, Cheney's voice was often the last one Bush heard on...
The truly fantastic part of this six-year, $26 million initiative is that it is a generous, cohesive, public/private collaboration. The Boston Foundation, a major funder of non-profit organizations in Boston, will be providing $1 million every year. In addition, the State Street Foundation, United Way, the Alchemy Foundation...
"There's an urgency to harmonize Europe's laws with America's. We are just getting to the stage where what is still considered 'contemporary culture' has started to fall into the public domain. Even the Beatles' recordings will begin to come out of European copyright in 2012 under the...