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I grew up in England, graduated from Oxford University and was a journalist for ten years for The Daily Telegraph and The Times of London. I was The Telegraph's bureau chief in New York and Paris before going to Harvard Business School in 2004 to obtain my MBA. I now live in Connecticut with my wife and two sons."


…who died today in Los Angeles – once gave thisfantastic interview on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs. His name is associated with 60s glamour, but he grew up in a two room tenement in the East End of London after his father left his mother. His mother and his aunt lived in one room, five children lived in the other.


Then at the age of 5, he was sent to live in an orphanage, where he lived till he...

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Ahead of the Curve: Two Yea...
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The Art of the Sale
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