Posts Tagged ‘Mckinsey’
Private Equity Firm to Focus on Green Tech
From our friends at the DealBook blog:Carter BalesThe race to cash in on the environmental technology wave just got a little more crowded on Monday with the founding of the New World Capital Group, a private equity firm focused on investing in companies in the nascent “green tech” sector. Led by Carter Bales, an industry heavyweight who founded the environmental practice at McKinsey in the 1980s, and assisted by four partners including Bradley Abelow, former head of operations at Goldman Sachs
Condé Nasties Lose Their Black Cars, Spa Days And Sushi Lunches
Poor Condé Nast. Staffers are taking clients for deli sandwiches instead of restaurant sushi; Poland Spring has replaced Fiji water, Orangina and Red Bull in office fridges; and, wait for it, famed Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is eating with commoners in the cafeteria. Here’s why: management consulting powerhouse McKinsey is on-site at the home of Vanity Fair , The New Yorker , Glamour and others, trying to figure out how to make the magazine giant more economically viable. T
Links 7/9/09
As you can see, the want of my own posts tonight is not due to a failure to look for material! Dolphin 'superpod' spotted off Wales BBC Monkeys show language recognition Science News Examiner Prince Charles: next generation faces 'living hell' unless climate change tackled Telegraph White House Ponders Bernanke's Future Wall Street Journal. Looking at the alternatives, we are probably better off with the devil we know. Summers? Dear God. Roger Ferguson? I know him from McKinsey, and