Word: ceos
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Pope John Paul II, CEO of 1 billion Catholics Skinny: High profile, but not really a hands-on peacemaker ODDS...
...profile people he has stroked and courted for decades: billionaire moneyman Herb Allen, media moguls Barry Diller and Michael Eisner, film director Sydney Pollack, Barnes & Noble chairman Len Riggio. They build support and raise money for Bradley, and in return he makes them feel good about themselves. Says Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz: "I just feel better for knowing him." Bradley likes to say, "This is not just a campaign, but something more"--a high-minded mission. That sounds trite, until you see it in action...
DIVORCING. PHYLLIS REDSTONE, 74, and Viacom CEO SUMNER REDSTONE, 76; after 52 years of marriage. The marriage reportedly foundered because of the media mogul's affair with a 46-year-old production-company executive...
...road-test issue, there are plenty of other reasons why this $40 billion industry might find e-commerce a risky road to take. Online furniture stores face costly returns, deliveries that can't be left to Federal Express and skeptical manufacturers. None of that is news to Andrew Brooks, CEO of Furniture.com Nevertheless, he thinks he can convert customers by making online sofa shopping much better than the showroom variety. Brooks is hoping to win consumers with features such as a program that allows them to click and drag pictures of furniture into a room on the website...
Rudenstine's talk--one of the first in recent memory in which he sounded less like an academic leader and more like a CEO--dealt with Harvard's recent sale of a Roxbury housing complex and a report on the University's economic impact released earlier this week...