Word: ceos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several students declined to be interviewed for this series, including the daughter of corporate-takeover magnate Henry R. Kravis; the daughter of performer and Academy Awards producer Quincy Jones; and the son of Harvard Overseer and Illinois Tool Works CEO John D. Nichols...
...Larry didn't get it," explains Farzad Dibachi. Larry is Larry Ellison, CEO of Silicon Valley powerhouse Oracle Corp., which has been struggling to sell the world on its vision of a $500 computer. "It" is the idea underlying Diba, the Valley start-up Dibachi launched last winter after quitting his job at Oracle. And the idea is IDEA, the Interactive Digital Electronic Appliance, a line of cheap devices that do just one thing instead of the limitless tasks expected of a PC. For example, the Diba Kitchen Idea, above, holds thousands of recipes on a CD-ROM. Diba wants...
...from 20% to 60%. "I'm someone who knows health care, education and business creation," he says. "Been there, done that." Says Ted Arrington, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte: "Sanders' ads hit all the right chords. People see that he's a CEO and an M.D.--that he has the stature to beat Helms...
...M.M.M.A. CEO Tsuneo Ohinouye admitted last week that his company had been slow or otherwise off base in its response to the EEOC allegations but claimed that there were "a number of misunderstandings" in those charges. He expressed a willingness to start negotiations to settle the matter, while stressing his belief that Mitsubishi had not been "particularly insensitive in responding to claims of sexual-harassment activities when compared to other companies in the business." Neither the EEOC nor lawyers for the women plaintiffs in the civil suit have heard directly from the company...
Other buyers, though something less than household names, represented the glittering ranks of industry and society. Anthony J.F. O'Reilly, whose day job is ceo of the H.J. Heinz Co. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, bought his Greek shipping-heiress wife Chryss the 40-carat diamond ring that Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis bestowed on Jackie for their engagement. Sotheby's had set its value at $500,000 to $600,000. O'Reilly paid $2.6 million...