Word: dynasticism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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It worked. Lu, 32, is CEO of Dad's firm, Wanxiang Group. He is expected one day to take his father's position atop the board in what would be the first dynastic succession in a major Chinese firm. Wanxiang supplies the makers of most passenger cars in China and...
In some ways, Noel Tata is an unlikely candidate to take over the Tata Group, India's most famous business conglomerate, which sells everything from steel to information-technology consulting to coffee and tea. The 46-year-old heads Trent, the group's retail unit, which had $27 million in...
Garcia Marquez, 75, who has been fighting lymphatic cancer since 1999, intends this book to be the first of three volumes. It ends with him as a journalist, just 27 years old, flying to cover a summit meeting in Geneva and writing a love letter to his future wife. By...
Here Franklin's improvisational genius came into play, as did his restraint. Adams would snarl that Franklin would receive undue credit for having set out "to abolish monarchy, aristocracy, and hierarchy, throughout the world." If he could, he might well have; he had long been allergic to titles and idle...
For the Harvard men’s swimming team, the year between the 2002 Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) Championship and the 2003 meet was a period of dynastic crisis.