Drug prices updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Drug prices news. The UK competition regulator has fined Advanz Pharma and private equity groups Cinven and Hg a total of £100m for increasing the price of a thyroid drug by more than 1,000 per cent over eight years. … Read more
Aron Solomon Contributor Aron Solomon, J.D., is the head of Strategy for Esquire Digital and the editor of Today’s Esquire. He has taught entrepreneurship at McGill University and the University of Pennsylvania, and was the founder of LegalX, a legal technology accelerator. More posts by this contributor If you don’t want robotic dogs patrolling the … Read more
There are powerful links between creativity and a positive attitude toward risk, writes Michele Wucker. Creative employees are more likely to take the kind of “good” risks that lead to innovation, and they’re willing to take the social risk of speaking up.
Executive Pay updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Executive Pay news. Bridgepoint, the newly listed private equity group, has come under fire for paying its independent board directors “golden hellos” worth £3.25m, with asset managers warning the payments were “highly irregular” and created “unnecessary conflicts of interest”. … Read more
Ben Boissevain Contributor Ben Boissevain has 30 years of corporate finance experience at firms including White & Case and Barclays Bank, and 20 years of experience in the tech sector. Despite the plentiful headlines about mega billion-dollar M&A transactions, record IPOs and the rapid growth of SPACs, small deals will continue to be the most … Read more
Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a billionaire private equity investor and close ally to former President Donald J. Trump, pleaded not guilty to charges of illegal lobbying for the United Arab Emirates.
In an interview about his new book Value(s): Building a Better World for All, Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, speaks about the shape of the recovery and how businesses can contribute to a purposeful future.
Blackstone Group LP updates Sign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Blackstone Group LP news. In the world of private equity, there is a time to reap and a time to sow. At Blackstone, the harvest festival has already begun. The world’s biggest alternative asset manager has taken advantage … Read more
Continuing our global look into the torrid pace of venture capital investment in the second quarter, today we turn to Canada. While many markets have posted impressive results, like the United States setting the pace for new all-time records in dollars invested into startups, Canada’s numbers stand out. The country, now famous in the startup … Read more
Brown Brothers has survived and thrived for more than two centuries in the highly competitive banking sector. In Inside Money, a new book about the storied firm, author Zachary Karabell describes how conservatism and pragmatism are viable strategies for surviving multiple disruptions.