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Fortune
March 23, 2018
Owing to its juggernaut growth, Facebook's business model was to just keep growing and maybe figure things out later. Now later has arrived, and it's time to figure things out. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the senior associate dean for leadership studies and Lester Crown professor of management practice at theÃâà...
Vail Daily News
March 16, 2018
Lester Crown, the patriarch of the billionaire Crown family, bought Aspen Skiing Co. in 1985. The family also has ownership stakes in General Dynamics, Sara Lee and JPMorgan Chase & Co., the latter of which is leading the consortium of banks handling Alterra Mountain Co.'s roughly $1.2 billion in debt.
Duke Today
March 8, 2018
The Crown Lecture in Ethics is made possible by a gift from Lester Crown and the Crown family and its purpose is to bring speakers to campus to discuss compelling ethical issues in the fields of art, science, medicine, business and policy. The lecture is presented by the Sanford School of Public Policy andÃâà...
Fortune
February 27, 2018
... business the old-fashioned way. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies and Lester Crown Professor of Management Practice at the Yale School of Management as well as author of Firing Back: How CEOs Rebound From Career Disasters(Harvard Business School Press).
Aspen Times
February 22, 2018
Lester Crown, patriarch of the owners, said recently the move needed to be made to compete in the ski industry. Alterra's pass price announcement triggers the ski-pass war that was anticipated with Vail Resorts. Vail sold its Epic Pass for $869 for this season. Its destinations include Vail, Beaver Creek,Ãâà...
Aspen Times
February 18, 2018
That last phase is about an 18-month project anchored by the Renee and Lester Crown Center for Specialty Care, along with a centralized patient registration and admissions area, as well as a chapel. The specialty care clinic will include medical services aimed at pain management, cardiology, urologyÃâà...
Aspen Times
January 27, 2018
Tee and Bob Child, Bobby Mason and Lester Crown were recognized. Wait a minute, did you say Lester Crown? Some sour locals objected to Crown's induction, and a couple of my friends have serious issues with Aspen Skiing Co., something that can't discounted, but for the moment let's put that aside.
Aspen Daily News
January 22, 2018
A man who told police he had a bomb in his backpack after attempting to protest an Aspen Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday night faces a felony menacing charge. Troy Stiles, of the Aspen area, also is charged with obstructing a police officer and disorderly conduct. He was being held in theÃâà...
Aspen Times
January 22, 2018
Aspen police arrested Stiles, a former Aspen Skiing Co. employee, after 3 p.m. Saturday, following reports from employees at Hotel Jerome of suspicious behavior that included his asking them where he could stand "to protest the murder of Lester Crown," according to an arrest affidavit. Crown, 92, is theÃâà...
Aspen Times
January 18, 2018
When Lester Crown and his family bought into Aspen Skiing Co. in July 1985, they pledged to treat the investment as a business rather than a hobby, Lester Crown recounted Thursday by telephone from his office in Chicago. The ski industry was so foreign to them at the time that they insisted on staying outÃâà...
Mountain Town News
October 22, 2017
A key figure in Aspen is Jim Crown, grandson of Lester Crown. Mike Shannon. KSL Capital Partners is probably best understood as an enterprise of Mike Shannon. Originally from Wisconsin, he was a banker in Chicago when he was tapped at age 25 to take the reins of Vail Associates, the precursor of VailÃâà...
Aspen Daily News
October 13, 2017
Bob and Tee Child, Bobby Mason and Lester Crown will be inducted into the Aspen Hall of Fame in January. Mason is the hall's first full-time musician inductee, while the foresight of Crown, owner of the Aspen Skiing Co., “led the growth of the local ski industry,” says a recent press release. Bob andÃâà...
Aspen Times
October 9, 2017
For the first time in its 30-plus years, the Aspen Hall of Fame is inducting a full-time musician as part of the Class of 2018, organizers announced Monday. Bobby Mason, who came to Aspen in 1969 for a two-week gig and never left, will be joined by Lester Crown, whose family owns Aspen Skiing Co., andÃâà...
Steamboat Pilot & Today
April 11, 2017
Steamboat Springs — According to Forbes Magazine, the members of the Lester Crown family, of Chicago, have stakes in such high profile investments as the Chicago Bulls, New York Yankees and General Dynamics. The family also owns the Aspen Skiing Co., and, if an announced $1.5 billion sale ofÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
December 22, 2015
Billionaire Lester Crown and his wife, Renee, last month paid $2.75 million for a three-bedroom, 3,400-square-foot condo on the 37th floor of Water Tower Place, according to public records. Lester Crown, 90, is one of Chicago's most prominent figures. A longtime Wilmette resident, he is the son of MaterialÃâà...
JNS.org
December 31, 1999
While leading Henry Crown and Company in Chicago, Lester Crown has maintained the family's proud legacy; the Crown Family Foundation has supported educational programs about Israel in America, as well as research institutions in Israel. The family endows a chair in Israel Studies at NorthwesternÃâà...
The Denver Post
December 31, 1999
Lester Crown, the patriarch of the billionaire Crown family, bought Aspen Skiing Co. in 1985. The family also has ownership stakes in General Dynamics, Sara Lee and JPMorgan Chase & Co., the latter of which is leading the consortium of banks handling Alterra Mountain Co.'s roughly $1.2 billion in debt.
POLITICO Magazine
December 31, 1999
Garcetti has traveled to New Hampshire and South Carolina, and the billionaire Lester Crown threw a luncheon (not yet a fundraiser) for Garcetti in Chicago in January. This past weekend, Senator Kamala Harris went to Selma, Alabama, to march with civil rights activists across the Edmund Pettus BridgeÃâà...
Duke Today
December 31, 1999
The Crown Lecture in Ethics is made possible by a gift from Lester Crown and the Crown family. Its purpose is to bring speakers to campus to discuss compelling ethical issues in the fields of art, science, medicine, business and policy. The lecture was co-sponsored by the Sanford School of Public PolicyÃâà...
Commercial Observer
December 31, 1999
Tishman acquired Rockefeller Center—10 buildings on 22 acres with about 9 million square feet—in a $1.85 billion transaction with billionaire Lester Crown's family in 2000, as The New York Times wrote during at that time. A spokesman for Tishman said the company declined to comment on the deal asÃâà...
The Real Deal Magazine
December 31, 1999
Tishman Speyer acquired the 22-acre Rockefeller Center complex in 2000, when it teamed up with Lester Crown's family to pay $1.85 billion to buy out interests owned by David Rockefeller, Goldman Sachs, Italy's Agnelli family and the estate of Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos. Tishman recentlyÃâà...
The Park Record
December 31, 1999
Lester Crown, the patriarch of the family, bought Aspen Skiing Co. in 1985. The family also has ownership stake in General Dynamics, Sara Lee, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. The latter, says the Post, is leading the consortium of banks handling Alterra's roughly $1.2 billion in debt. Gregory singled outÃâà...
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