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☆ How activist Irenic can amicably build shareholder value at Reservoir Media
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-05 | by ( Kenneth Squire | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Business: Reservoir Media operates a music publishing business, a recorded music business, a management business and a rights management entity in the Middle East. It operates through two segments: Music Publishing and Recorded Music. The Music Publishing segment is involved in the acquisition of interests in music catalogs, from which royalties are earned, as well as signing songwriters to agreements. The Recorded Music segment acquires sound recording catalogs and discoves recording artists, as well as markets, distributes, sells and licenses the music catalogs. After 12 years as a private company, RSVR went public in July 2021.

Persons: Joni Mitchell, Isley, Billy Strayhorn, Hoagy Carmichael, John Denver, Ali Tamposi, Jamie Hartman, Oak Felder, Steph Jones, Hans Zimmer, RSVR, Roth, Adam Rothstein, Irenic, SPACs, Khosrowshahi, Hipgnosis, Richmond Hill's, Ryan Taylor, Ken Squire Organizations: Reservoir Media, Publishing, Reservoir, Blackstone, Richmond Hill Investments, Richmond, 13D Locations: RSVR, Richmond

☆ No degree? No problem. Inside Blackstone's ambitious plans to internally grow talent for its data centers and other portfolio companies
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

It's launched an internal Data Center Academy to find and train candidates to fill the specialized technical positions that can be tricky to hire for. QTS's talent programs have led to 100 new, trained hires, or 8% of the company's total size. Here's how Blackstone's Career Pathways program is helping the firm solve its data center talent problem. So far, the firm has placed five Data Center Academy cohorts in eleven markets. Dawon said the Data Center Academy taught him both hard and soft skills, such as public speaking and the ability to navigate a corporate environment.

Persons: Blackstone, Dawon, —, Steve Schwarzman, It's, Blackstone's, Joe Baratta, Marcus Felder, Felder, it's, Jon Gray, QTS, they've, Kimberly Hines, Alhaji Dawon, hadn't Organizations: Service, Uptime Institute, Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, Blackstone Property Partners, Data Center Academy, Manhattan, Blackstone Investing, Blackstone, Business, Department of Defense, cybersecurity, QTS Locations: QTS, cybersecurity

☆ Nvidia is in a bubble, stocks will disappoint for a decade, and a recession will strike this year, markets guru warns
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Nvidia is in a bubble, stocks will falter, and a recession will hit this year, Jesse Felder said. The markets guru said the microchip frenzy would fade, and stock-market returns would drop off. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementNvidia hype is a bubble that will burst, stocks will disappoint for the next decade or longer, and a recession will strike this year, Jesse Felder said.

Persons: Jesse Felder, —, outsize, Felder, Jeff Bezos, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Jamie Dimon Organizations: Nvidia, Service, Micron

☆ Lucien Pellat-Finet, Fashion’s ‘King of Cashmere,’ Dies at 78
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Rachel Felder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Lucien Pellat-Finet, the French fashion designer whose brash, irreverent and unapologetically expensive sweaters earned him the nickname King of Cashmere, died on Feb. 26 in Trancoso, Brazil, where he had owned a home for more two decades. A niece, Camille Dauchez, said that Mr. Pellat-Finet (pronounced pell-ah fee-NAY), who had Parkinson’s disease, died in a swimming accident. Sometimes, skulls were additionally tweaked with details like a stuck-out tongue, aviator sunglasses or a tilted sailor’s hat. They came in neutral colors like black and navy as well as vivid shades of orange, pink, green and camouflage prints. Instead of a traditional sweater’s somewhat boxy cut and ribbed cuffs at the arms and waistband, a Lucien Pellat-Finet pullover was essentially a luxe T-shirt, as the makeup artist Tom Pecheux put it, in “the shape of Fruit of the Loom.”

Persons: Lucien Pellat, of Cashmere, Camille Dauchez, Pellat, pell, pullover, Tom Pecheux Locations: Trancoso, Brazil

☆ Here's what holiday burnout does to your body and how to protect yourself against it
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-11 | by ( Nandini Maharaj | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Holiday burnout is a term that describes "the mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion that someone can experience during or after the holiday season," Michelle Felder, founder and CEO of Parenting Pathfinders, told Insider. It's important to be proactive since burnout can lead to lasting changes in how your body responds to stress. For advice, I asked therapists about the signs of holiday burnout and what you can do to prevent it from ruining the festivities. With repeated and prolonged exposure to stress, your body has a harder time recovering from the fight or flight response. When you're constantly rushed, it can be challenging to "enjoy holiday activities and events that you used to look forward to," Appleton said.

Persons: —, Michelle Felder, Felder, Daryl Appleton, Appleton, it's, you've, " Felder, Nandini Maharaj Organizations: Service, Business, Parenting Pathfinders, Fortune Locations: New York City

☆ In the Beauty World, the Holidays Are Always Top of Mind
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Rachel Felder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

SustainabilityAnd this year, many beauty sets include full-size products instead of tiny miniatures. The larger sizes make sense, “especially if you want the consumer to use a product enough so that they want to purchase it again,” said Anna Keller, a senior global beauty and personal care analyst at the market research company Mintel. Selfridges’s 2023 version was released on Sept. 22; six weeks later, the store reported, it had sold 80 percent more calendars than during the same time period in 2022. Still, for some consumers, “they feel very expected at this point,” Ms. Keller said. Strategically, she added, it’s better for brands, “to think of Advent calendars as more of a mini-sampling experience,” so they can “really tie into that idea of small, highly giftable products that either you can gift yourself or share with other people.”

Persons: ”, Anna Keller, “, — it’s, Ms, Kendall, Keller

☆ How researchers are developing fabrics that can keep skin 9 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than cotton
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Kelly Burch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A lab in China made a fabric that can keep skin temperature 9 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than cotton. Brands including Bearbottom Clothing, LifeLabs, and Mission have products like t-shirts that can cool you down by 3 degrees Fahrenheit and hats that get 23 degrees Fahrenheit cooler when wet. Guangming TaoThe temperature of the student's skin wearing the side with the metafabric was 4.8 degrees Celsius, or about 9 degrees Fahrenheit, cooler than the side covered in cotton. AdvertisementAdvertisementThis isn't the first cooling fabric to be developed, but other fabrics have been extremely thin and fragile. Athletes, construction workers, soldiers, and others could benefit from wearing the cooling fabric, Tao said.

Persons: Summers, Robert Felder, Bearbottom, NanoStitch, Guangming Tao, Tao, Guangming Organizations: Brands, Service, Bearbottom, China, Wuhan National Laboratory, Optoelectronics, of Materials Science, Engineering Locations: China, Wall, Silicon, Wuhan

☆ Yes, R. Crumb Made a Yoga Mat
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Rachel Felder | Chris Schalkx | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

During the summer of 2022, I was lucky enough to visit the home of the comics artist couple Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Robert Crumb in a remote town in the south of France. Kominsky-Crumb, in good health at the time of our meeting, died of pancreatic cancer less than six months later. She was, with apologies to Crumb, the more personable of the two. Which brings us to this, Crumb’s touching tribute to his wife in the form of a yoga mat, with art based on an old flier he’d made for one of Kominsky-Crumb’s classes. It’s not something Crumb himself would ever use, but it’s the contrast in their personalities that makes their work so captivating.

Persons: Aline Kominsky, Crumb, Robert Crumb, Covid, ” Crumb, grandkids, Jane Fonda, he’d Locations: France, California

☆ After a Single Glance, an Unspoken Connection Blossomed
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Rachel Felder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As they got to know one another — “It was a little awkward because I’d been looking at him for six months,” Mr. Bittar said — Mr. Bittar explained that he was a single father. Mr. Bittar, who is gregarious and vocal, grew up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. His father, Robert Bittar, is of Syrian descent and his late mother, Helen Bittar, was of Irish-Catholic descent; both were professors. Mr. Bittar began selling jewelry on the streets of downtown Manhattan as a scrappy teenager. “The differences are so obvious it’s kind of ridiculous,” said Todd Parmley, a software company executive who has known Mr. Bittar for more than two decades.

Persons: Miner, Charlie, ” Mr, Bittar, Mr, “, ‘, Robert Bittar, Helen Bittar, Charles Miner III, Claire Miner, ”, Todd Parmley Organizations: East, Bucknell University Locations: Bay Ridge , Brooklyn, Manhattan, Connecticut, Darien, Fairfield

☆ 3 ways I'm surviving inflation as the owner of a men's clothing brand — without passing the cost on to my customers
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Erin Greenawald | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Bearbottom, a men's clothing brand, has costs 15% to 20% higher than they were before 2020. Its CEO and founder told Insider how the small business found ways to be leaner across the company. Since then, we've seen significant price increases in nearly every aspect of the business: fabric, shipping, warehouse materials, and advertising. At the peak of price hikes, we saw cost increases of close to 40% compared with 2020 for our best-selling product. and asked what we could do on our end to make things easier for them and maybe lower the cost.

☆ Cool girls don't drink alcohol anymore
▼ + stars: | 2021-11-06 | by ( Allana Akhtar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Young women are using Instagram and TikTok to show others you can be both "cool" and sober. Alcohol alternative drink sales rose this year, on the heels of the "trendy" sober curious movement. Young women like Gomez are on a mission to prove it's "cool" not to drink, and ditching alcohol can even help women achieve self-care and empowerment. Plus, CBD-infused drinks — like ultimate cool girl Bella Hadid's Kin brand — promise a similar buzz without impairing your health or decision-making. Gomez's drink-less Instagram could have an aspirational effect: You can be a cool girl like her — if you don't drink.

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