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Aman Resorts: The nasty battle for the ultimate luxury hotel chain ... » Sep 4, 2014 ...Relations between the two deteriorated so dramatically that at one point, Doronin told Amanat, according to a claim in the latter's legal filings, “If I feel you ...At age 23, Amanat joined Datek, a well-known day-trading outfit, and he says he later helped build a stock-trading platform that let regular investors... Fortune.com

Can Procter & Gamble Find Its Aim Again? » Jun 9, 2016 ...The result: a falling stock and unhappy pensioners (whose retirement was paid in stock) who actively campaigned for McDonald's removal. That occurred as activist investor Bill Ackman took a stake and publicly denounced McDonald's leadership. A slow-moving political bureaucracy, it seemed, had lost its... Fortune.com

Competing with Giants: Survival Strategies for Local Companies in ... » Strategists at multinational corporations can draw on a rich body of work to advise them on how to enter emerging markets, but managers of local companies in these markets have had little guidance. ....Because standards of beauty vary so much across cultures, the pressure to globalize the cosmetics industry is weak . Hbr.org

Kill a Brand, Keep a Customer » Companies spend vast sums of money and time launching new brands, leveraging existing ones, and acquiring rivals. They create line extensions and brand extensions, not to mention channel extensions and subbrands, to cater to the growing number of niche segments in every market, and they fashion complex... Hbr.org

Booked: Change is the name of the game for companies that shape ... » May 4, 2015 ...Stock markets, he also notes, still group companies into classic boxes, with a different view of the financial risks with each. Sometimes companies can significantly boost their market valuations by declaring, like Time Warner did, that they are now in a different sector. That involves more than superficiality,... Irishtimes.com

Airbnb: The Growth Story You Didn't Know - GrowthHackers » While the first integration got much needed traffic to Airbnb listings, in Craigslist the company saw another opportunity for getting more users to list their properties on Airbnb in the first place. Dave Gooden, who admittedly works in the vacation rental sector, says that in late 2009 he began looking into Airbnb's mysterious... Growthhackers.com

The Impacts of Tourism » leaders must balance an array of impacts that may either improve or negatively affect ...tables list a range of important tourism impacts in a concise ...only one industry. As tourism grows, additional opportunities are created for investment, development, and infrastructure spending. Tourism often induces improvements. Seagrant.umn.edu

Education publisher Pearson reports biggest loss in its history ... » Feb 24, 2017 ...The world's largest education publisher, which in January saw almost £2bn wiped from its stock market value after issuing its fifth profit warning in two years, reported the record loss after taking ...Pearson was founded in 1844 as a construction company which switched to the publishing sector in the 1920s. Theguardian.com

The WIRED 100 - 2016's most influential people ranked | WIRED UK » Since 2010, we've regularly canvassed our network of entrepreneurs, investors, designers, scientists and policymakers to identify the key influencers in the WIRED world. We ask them to list the people at that moment who are shaping our culture, the tech economy, consumer behaviour, scientific discovery - in short, the ... Wired.co.uk

Lawsuits Commence Against Takata, Auto Makers Over Air Bags » Oct 28, 2014 ...Takata Corp. and carmakers that install the company's air bags were sued by U.S. drivers over claims they were duped into buying unsafe vehicles following the recall of almost 8 million cars from 10 automakers. Buyers or leasers of Honda Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp., and other affected brands filed... Insurancejournal.com