Word: ceos
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...approach that would have cut out the local cellular-network middlemen. But that wasn't very feasible in the glass-and-steel canyons of bustling cities, where customers would be out of the line of sight of the heavens and service would be spotty. (Imagine explaining to an irked CEO that his pricey new handset won't work from his office building unless he climbs to the roof.) Bowing to technological reality, Iridium decided that its phones should piggyback on terrestrial cell-phone networks. Then the question became--which ones? An Iridium phone needs different plug-in modules to speak...
...only thing I'm really worried about is that three points," said Jack R. Meyer president and CEO of HMC in an interview yesterday. "It is unusual for us to under-perform." Meyer said HMC aims to outperform the benchmarks even in down markets...
...paired donation was made in honor of Finn M. W. Caspersen, a graduate of both Peddie and HLS who is the outgoing CEO of Beneficial Corporation, which was acquired in an April stock swap by Household. Caspersen declined a position with Household, the largest consumer-finance and credit-card company in the country, and will instead follow a "second career" in charity work, according to a Law School statement...
Attention was drawn to the issue of networkmisuse last year when, Garrick Lau '98, the CEO ofOmicron Technologies Corporation, used his webpage to distribute computer software...
...Robert Kemp, CEO of the Los Angeles Community Development Bank, also believes that set-aside programs are still essential. Since 1996, his small bank (current assets: $48 million) has offered capital, lines of credit and basic services to businesses in South Central and East Los Angeles. "By enlarging the procurement pie," he says, "it has made it possible for everyone to be a part of the economy. In fact, the increased competition made better products and services." That's a color-blind mantra if ever there was one. --Reported by Patrick Cole/ Los Angeles, Sally B. Donnelly/Washington, Greg Fulton/Atlanta, Erik...