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Robert E. Rubin ’60, Summers’ former boss and predecessor at the U.S. Treasury, was an instrumental supporter of his bid for the Harvard presidency. And Robert D. Reischauer ’63, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, was also a colleague of Summers and Rubin’s in Washington...
...furious Fiorino reacted by publicly firing the server unit's boss and two others, the board began to take a harder look at her performance. By early January, outside directors, led by Dunn, ex--White House science adviser George Keyworth, and Richard Hackborn, a former HP chairman who once turned down the CEO job, read her a four-page critique. At a board planning session later that month, the directors, growing bolder, presented Fiorina with her effective demotion. The approach of a damning cover story in FORTUNE reportedly hastened her departure. The piece, headlined "Why Carly...
...considered moving back home to the northeast of Thailand, as many of his friends did. But now, as each day brings the opening of a new business and each week sees a slight increase of tourists on the sand, he has decided to stay. "I have too, boss," he says with a smile. "How else will you get back to your hotel...
...meeting ended quietly, but the nasty succession drama is far from over. Eisner calls the intrigue at Disney "Shakespearean," and Stewart likens the CEO to Lear and Richard III--though the literary comparison undeservedly puffs up DisneyWar and Eisner. A media leader squandering his company's worth, a tyrannical boss, a failure clinging to power--these are dog-bites-man stories that Stewart simply bundles up in a deliciously toxic, if underanalyzed, package. It's not a tragedy worthy of the Bard, but it is a lusty roll in greed and spite. In other words, a good old-fashioned Hollywood...
...Ohio hotels that are porn free. Then Myer Hotels, based in Branson, Mo., stepped in to help expand the project into a listing of smut-free hotels anywhere in the country. The site is still in an early, beta-testing phase, but Chris Myer, the company's interactive boss, sees a big future. "There are a lot of people who want to protect their families from pornography," he says. Adds David Miller, vice president of C.C.V.: "We just want people to have a choice." Already, conservative groups like Concerned Women for America are urging members to consult the website before...