updated Fri. April 2, 2021
-
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 theÃÂ ...
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 andÃÂ ...
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,ÃÂ ...
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, urologyÃÂ ...
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 theÃÂ ...
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 theÃÂ ...
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 outÃÂ ...
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 VailÃÂ ...
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 andÃÂ ...
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., andÃÂ ...
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 ofÃÂ ...
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 MaterialÃÂ ...
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 NorthwesternÃÂ ...
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 BridgeÃÂ ...
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 PolicyÃÂ ...
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 asÃÂ ...
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 recentlyÃÂ ...
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 outÃÂ ...
WEEI.com
February 15, 2018
Couple Lester crown can relax youth he needs to crown he's got like four more hours a glint of war. He stormed out today it's usually repeat we are usually talks on all three of for like a little bit but he was is not the boots and he was gone. It was a busy day for the tire station and a crazy day pitcher for theÃÂ ...
Summit Daily News
January 28, 2018
... arrived at Jackson Hole after running the Aspen Skiing Co. in the 1980s. Mark Barron, a former mayor in Jackson, credited Blann and the Kemmerers with giving Jackson and Teton County a much stronger winter economy. In Aspen, Lester Crown, 92, was honored Saturday night at a community banquet.
Aspen Times
January 28, 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 Times
January 25, 2018
Lester Crown, patriarch of the Crown family, told The Aspen Times last week that it was a matter of survival for his family to team with KSL to create a major player in the ski industry. "It was a question of whether the ski company could stand alone and attract the clientele it needed and deserved," Crown said.
Aspen Times
January 23, 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 theÃÂ ...
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 theÃÂ ...
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 theÃÂ ...
Aspen Times
January 20, 2018
The Aspen Hall of Fame is holding a banquet tonight to induct Bob and Tee Child, Lester Crown, patriarch of the family that owns Aspen Skiing Co., and musician Bobby Mason. While Steve Child was growing up in Capitol Creek Valley, visitors of all stripes were welcomed at his family's ranch. His parentsÃÂ ...
Aspen Times
January 20, 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 outÃÂ ...
Aspen Daily News
January 4, 2018
Tickets for this year's Aspen Hall of Fame inductee banquet must be purchased by Wednesday, Jan. 10, for the event that will take place on Jan. 20. Four individuals will be honored at the banquet which is in its 31st year: Bob and Tee Child, Lester Crown and Bobby Mason. Tickets, which cost $125, can beÃÂ ...
The Sheet
December 22, 2017
Those mountains, which include Aspen Mountain, Snowmass, Aspen Highlands, and Buttermilk, will continue to be owned by the Lester Crown family of Chicago. As part of its $1.5 billion purchase of Intrawest, KSL-Aspen acquired seven resorts, in addition to the four ski areas that comprise MammothÃÂ ...
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 VailÃÂ ...
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., andÃÂ ...
Daily North Shore
July 30, 2017
Wilmette's Lester Crown is one of three local philanthropists who helped build a permanent exhibit for the Museum of Tolerance to house a rare Adolf Hitler ... It was Lester Crown, Judd Malkin, and Sam Zell who spearheaded a campaign to build a permanent exhibit in Los Angeles' Museum of Tolerance,ÃÂ ...
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 ofÃÂ ...
Crain's Chicago Business
March 13, 2017
Shirley-and-Lester-Crown.jpg. The Crowns' gift was revealed March 10 at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab's gala opening dinner, held at the Streeterville facility. Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago saved the news of one major gift for the March 10 gala dinner celebrating Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, its new $550 millionÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
October 3, 2016
He's known as a big supporter of the arts — and has been an honorary chairman of the board at the Lyric Opera for years. But Mayor Rahm Emanuel had never actually been spotted by regulars taking in a show at the city's opera until Saturday, when he and his wife, Amy Rule, mixed with the swells on theÃÂ ...
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 MaterialÃÂ ...
Crain's Chicago Business (blog)
July 8, 2014
A gift from the children, nieces and nephews of Renee and Lester Crown will establish a specialty care center at Aspen Valley Hospital in Colorado. The new center, which will be named in honor of the philanthropic couple, will include services for cardiology, pain management, urology, pulmonology,ÃÂ ...
Vail Daily News
November 29, 2017
And, of course, billionaire Lester Crown's General Dynamics. An ancient Athenian correctly predicted that the tyranny that the world's first democracy imposed on its colonies — its empire — would come back to haunt it at home. It did. That's pretty convenient for the government and arms manufactures.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
November 20, 2017
On the other end of the spectrum, there are people that believe government's guns should be pointed inwards (the welfare statists). The only real winner in all of this? The government's guns. And of course, billionaire Lester Crown's General Dynamics. An ancient Athenian correctly predicted that the tyrannyÃÂ ...
Mountain Town News
October 22, 2017
Deep pockets of the Crown family of Chicago and Aspen and the KSL Capital Partners have now assembled enough ski areas to do serious ...
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 ...
Yale News
October 11, 2017
He will be joined by Jeff Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean for leadership studies and the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of ...
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., andÃÂ ...
Aspen Times
October 9, 2017
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 ...
Chicago Tribune
October 6, 2017
“Jack was quiet but very constructive, and he didn't say anything unless it added to the discussion,” said Lester Crown, chairman of the Lyric ...
Daily North Shore
July 30, 2017
Wilmette's Lester Crown is one of three local philanthropists who helped build a permanent exhibit for the Museum of Tolerance to house a rare Adolf Hitler ... It was Lester Crown, Judd Malkin, and Sam Zell who spearheaded a campaign to build a permanent exhibit in Los Angeles' Museum of Tolerance,ÃÂ ...
|
news and opinion
|
