The Darling Buds in September 2014, and two headline shows at London's Lexington in April 2015. The Darling Buds released the "Evergreen" EP, their first new material in 25 years, on Oddbox Records on 28 April 2017, and followed this up with a digital-only single, New Year, on 15 December 2018. The Darling Buds The Darling Buds are an alternative rock band from Newport, South Wales. The band formed in 1986 and were named after the H. E. Bates novel "The Darling Buds of May" – a title taken in turn, from the third line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: "Rough winds do shake
George E. Bates (professor) George E. Bates (professor) George E. Bates (1902-1992) was an American academic. He was a Professor of Investment Management at the Harvard Business School and the editor of the "Harvard Business Review". George E. Bates graduated from the University of Missouri. He also earned a master in business administrator (M.B.A.) from the Harvard Business School in 1925. Bates started his career as an Assistant Dean at the Harvard Business School in 1925. Over the course of his forty-year career as a faculty member, he became the Winston Professor of Investment Management at the Harvard Business School. He authored two books