As usual the Conservatives way outspent Labour, with much of the money paying for the services of the advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi.
This is a dramatic change for the Tories, marking a final break with Saatchi and Saatchi, the agency that worked on every Conservative general-election campaign from 1979 onwards.
It was jointly taught by staff from the Judge school and executives from Saatchi and Saatchi, with the idea of breaking down the notion that creativity should be the sole preserve of the so-called "creative industries" such as advertising.
The aim was "to provide a perspective on business and career development that lies totally outside the established MBA curriculum, confronting prejudices about creativity and providing innovative methodologies developed to channel creativity to 'stretch the walls of the elastic-sided box', that can be successfully applied to any industry, to generate momentous ideas, " according to Kevin Roberts, Saatchi and Saatchi's worldwide CEO.
Villagers say Mr. Ehrmann didn't go unnoticed, dressing in black at the wheel of a Bentley and walking his two Great Danes, named Reuters and Saatchi after the news and advertising agencies.
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Edward Saatchi, the son of advertising legend and business mogul Maurice Saatchi, has President Obama to thank for his success today.
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Advertising magnate Lord Saatchi and former Australian Prime Minister John Howard have also accepted invitations.
In the last couple of years many big agencies like Saatchi and JWT saw a talent drain, as senior creative and management left to start their own agencies.
Here he is meeting Cecil Beaton, partying with David Bailey in East London, throwing the party of the year in New York to herald the arrival of the Rolling Stones, raising horses in Arizona, releasing an album in July, and "doing up" (though he would hate that term) homes for the likes of Rod Stewart, Charles Saatchi and Princess Michael of Kent.
Sorrell is a Cambridge and Harvard graduate from North London, a self-described "bean counter" who made his mark as the finance director of the ad gurus, Charles and Maurice Saatchi.
Sean Scully, an Irish-born painter who does large geometric abstract oils that look a little like checkerboards, has complained that Saatchi pumped and then dumped his work in the 1980s.
To take only the two most obvious examples, Sir Nicholas Serota, a former young Turk, presides at the new Tate, Britain's most popular gallery, and Charles Saatchi's once shocking collection of Brit art is on display in museum-space that he colonised in London's staid old County Hall upriver.
The gallery is owned by the art collector Charles Saatchi, who has become a champion of modern art in Britain, and the photographs are part of Mr Saatchi's private collection.
The judges who chose his portrait as the winner included Saatchi Gallery director Rebecca Wilson and illustrator Axel Scheffler, well known for his work on The Gruffalo.
In 1993 paintings by a struggling, little-known 22-year-old, Jenny Saville, caught Saatchi's eye, and he set her up in a studio, paying her to work for a year making art for his gallery.
In the 1990s Saatchi started to sell his American collection and buy contemporary work from Britain.
The Saatchi art grabbed gallery visitors by the throat and shook them.
The story of how Saatchi lost the plot in the late 1980s and early '90s is itself a case study in being led astray by still trying to act a part in a play that ended a while back, but what's equally interesting is how the company was able to rethink its plot, as Saatchi's chief executive, Kevin Roberts, has noted in his blog.
Along with the gallery, Saatchi runs an art Web site packed with reviews, museum and gallery listings, blogs, links to schools and grants, and a huge populist online marketplace where any artist can hawk his wares.
Saatchi's answer, as it was led by Bob Seelert and then Kevin Roberts, wasn't just to create a new value proposition, although it certainly did that.
Saatchi realized that by posting community leaderboards, people in the community feel more accountable and perform at a higher level.
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Sassan Saatchi, who works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his collaborators have combined such data with the results of other studies on the ground and with a wider range of satellite images.
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In 2003 Saatchi moved his gallery to a spot on the Thames but got into a tussle with landlords and exited the place two years later.
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