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...recent breakfast in his private dining room overlooking the Eiffel Tower, he was strictly a coffee man, despite having just pulled off a deal worth celebrating with something stronger. In March, Pernod Ricard stunned its rivals by landing one of the biggest prizes in the drinks sector: Absolut, the world's leading premium vodka, whose acquisition, Ricard concedes, was "a bit of a coup...
...legal services, but may not have the cash to pay. The traditional five or six percent of HLS graduates going into public-service law has now doubled to about 12 percent.But even with this new trend, both Ruttenberg and Shabecoff note that to graduates, a position in a private sector job often is easier and has a greater economic payoff: the salary at a typical law firm starts at around $160,000, compared with an average salary of $45,000 in public interest work. Regardless, HLS hopes that their efforts in funding, like guaranteed funding for summer work, will help...
...Along with promoting France's modern cultural works, Abanel is also looking to protect significant French economic interests in the arts sector, which currently employs around 50,000 people across 10,000 companies. Public auctions yield around $2 billion in annual business, and Albanel estimates that sales between private parties represents as much as $10 billion per year. But while the French art market has been growing by around 13% a year, others are growing faster...
...behind 41.7% for the U.S. and 29.7% for Britain; France's take was just 6.4%, according to a recent study by art specialist Artprice. Just three decades ago, French art sales made up a quarter of the world total. But the picture gets even worse in the modern art sector, where French activity in 2007 represented a mere 2.8% stake of the world market, Artprice reported...
...America’s top economic and business leaders through a series of keynote speeches and panels on topics including private equity, health care, and energy. The conference opened with a keynote session, moderated by Business School Senior Lecturer in Business Administration Michael Chu, which discussed how the private sector and the public sector can work together to improve living conditions for impoverished Latin Americans. Luis A. Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, talked about the past inclinations of the Latin American private sector, which focused on the higher classes of the economic pyramid and on external markets...