His runner-up is Paul Gompers, of Spur Capital Partners, in Boston, who has won the St.

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Today, the American labour movement is dominated by the AFL-CIO, the successor to the union of unions Gompers founded in 1886.

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Organized labor's position harkens back to the days of early AFL President Samuel Gompers, who came out against a more open immigration policy when he saw how the late-19th-century wave of Chinese immigrants affected his union members' wages.

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But with B-share holders calling the shots, such firms tend to underinvest, leading to lower sales growth and valuations than with single-share-class firms, according to a study by Harvard Business School's Paul Gompers, Stanford's Joy Ishii and Wharton's Andrew Metrick.

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