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...What do you mean? Like right now we're arguing over CEO salaries. Why is this in my life now? Why do I have to care? It's because politicians have forced me to be a shareholder in an insurance company or a car company or a bank. I don't want to be a shareholder in that! Gosh...
...display earlier this month in Shanghai, when a San Francisco - based company called the Cleantech Group hosted a venture-capital forum aimed at driving investment dollars toward alternative-energy entrepreneurs on the mainland. Opportunities appear to be plentiful, despite the dim economic environment. Forum attendee Patrick Tam, CEO of Beijing Tsing Capital, says he is investing heavily in Chinese clean-tech companies - most recently in a Beijing firm called NetPower Technologies, which makes a battery that helps power-hungry businesses reduce their electricity consumption. "The government is just letting the venture-capital market rip in this field," says...
Like everyone else at eBay's San Jose, Calif., campus, John Donahoe sits in a cubicle. Though this is one of the dotcom biz's oldest clichés, the company's 6-ft. 5-in. new CEO really does use the cramped space--filled with eBay trinkets and pictures of his wife (an Obama campaign fundraiser) and four children (all basketball players and eBay users)--as his primary office. That visibility and openness has earned Donahoe, brought in by Meg Whitman from Bain & Co. three years ago and promoted to replace her in March, respect from employees and customers alike...
That's why Donahoe, a Whitman hire at both eBay and Bain, where he spent more than 20 years, eventually becoming its CEO, carried out a series of rapid-fire changes. He emphasized, for example, fixed-price sales over auctions and got his mitts on the hands-off approach that has defined eBay for years. Many wonder whether the 12-year-old auction giant will emerge with the same DNA once Dennis the Menace departs. "Donahoe has introduced more changes in the last six months than we've seen in the last six years," says Jack Sheng, chief executive...
...price-driven," says Bob Cotton, CEO of the British Hospitality Association, which represents 60,000 hotels and restaurants in the U.K. "I couldn't say the British public have suddenly fallen in love with offal. That would be gilding the lily...