Word: ceo
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...ones offered last year. "It's like night and day," Wilson says. Online florist 1-800-FLOWERS.com, whose sales dropped for the first time in company history last quarter, is selling a dozen roses for $24.99. "That's the lowest price we've seen in 25 years," says company founder and CEO Jim McCann. (Read "Valentine's Deals That You'll Love...
...Walker is the founder and CEO of Asianomics Limited, a Hong Kong consulting and economic-research company
...Stephen M. Wilkins, a manager in the department of sports administration with CPS, knew Duncan well before working under the CEO. The two were raised one block away from each other in Hyde Park. “He grew up in the unlikely scenario,” says Wilkins, “of a kid from a solid middle class background going across the very real racial lines of Chicago to tutor kids eight blocks from where he lived...
...After Harvard, Duncan played professional basketball in Australia for four years. Though he never hit it big in the NBA as he had originally hoped, basketball nonetheless paved the way for Duncan’s later career. In 1981, John Rogers Jr., CEO of Ariel Capital Management and a former teammate of Duncan’s in a Chicago three-on-three basketball league, offered Duncan a job managing Ariel Community Academy, a charter school funded by the business. From there, Duncan went on to manage the Chicago city parks. He was eventually tapped to run CPS by Paul...
...numerous companies have publicly announced their intention to minimize layoffs, even as the economy's outlook gets uglier. Air-conditioner maker Daikin plans to reduce investment in new equipment and carmaker Mazda has implemented pay cuts to minimize layoffs. "We need to share the pain with all," Mazda CEO Takashi Yamanouchi recently told reporters...