For John Clough, the CFO of a high-technology firm, the invitation to join the board of a Fortune 500 company seemed like an opportunity to move up to the big leagues.
The firm issued invitations to researchers in the United States and the European Union who were registered with AAAS or IBC Life Sciences and who identified themselves as working in biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies.
The company's PR firm needed no invitation to push this "key statistic" for Anand's tenure: "Ten-year total shareholder is nearly 200%." Hold on a minute, though: Anand has been chief executive for 14 years, so why are you quoting a number for only the last decade?
Contributions totaling $7.5 million have come from New York-based private equity firm Blackstone Group and Invitation Homes, a single-family rental company in which Blackstone is a major shareholder.
It may even secure the executives of these financial firms a coveted invitation to the yearly party at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The winners of the wind boom are predictable – wealthy investors, landowners and renewables firms accepted the invitation to cash in at artificially high rates of return, as intended.
He used Lizzie Grubman's public relations firm to send invitations to his holiday party in 2001 ("festive attire" was requested).
In advance of this year's Academy Awards presentation, a Hollywood publicity firm sent out invitations to screenings with stamps that featured images from five movies, including "Dreamgirls" and "World Trade Center".
In advance of this year's Academy Awards presentation, a Hollywood publicity firm sent out invitations to screenings with stamps that featured images from five movies, including "Dreamgirls" and "World Trade Center". CBS put some of its television stars on stamps last year to promote its fall lineup.
By Barbara Vroom The New Yorker, May 8 , 1971P. 112 Three months after the writer arrived in London, where she was to work for a year in a publishing firm, she received an invitation from Misses Edith and Claudia Gardener, a pair of octogenarian sisters, to visit them at Northwood, their home in Oxford.
