William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme who came to resent 'manufacturing pictures for the market'). The painting was previously owned by his competitor, A & F Pears, who used paintings such as "Bubbles" by John Everett Millais to promote its products. Much of Leverhulme's art collection is displayed in the gallery which houses one of the finest formed by an industrialist in England. A.N. Wilson from the Mail Online, January 2010, remarked, "The altruism of Leverhulme or the Cadbury family are in sad contrast to the antisocial attitude of modern business magnates, who think only of profit and the shareholder." William Lever made the celebrated observation
Technology Business Management Council in November 2013 in Seattle, attended by approximately 400 IT leaders. At the conference, eBay received the council’s first Operational Excellence Award, given to organizations that employ “internal and external IT transparency to improve the cost-effectiveness of the services IT delivers to the wider organization.” The second conference is scheduled for October 2014 in Miami Beach. Technology Business Management Council Technology Business Management Council is a Washington-based non-profit organization with the goal of creating and promoting “best practices for running IT as a business.” As of January 2018, the TBM Council has about 5,100 CIO, CTO, & CFO members who