Word: ceos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have the drive and decisiveness to hold the system together. Admired from Tokyo to Washington for his brains, integrity and ability to cut through swaths of red tape to get a job done, Zhu is considered the antithesis of the cautious, faceless, communist bureaucrat. "He behaves more like the CEO of an international corporation than a politician," says John Wadsworth Jr., chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. "He's very 'American...
...more. In the recruiting race, a job with the most prestigious firm promises the most valuable experience and most sought-after MBA. Once in a firm, career advancement is the prized apple and extra effort once again is the way to achieve it. And if you do become the CEO, that only means even more pressure to excel...
WASHINGTON: On the Internet, Goliath crushed David. But when Bill Gates went head-to-head with Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the little guy -- aided by a gang of sympatico senators -- was finally able to get a slingshot in. Kicking off the hearings in a basketball-court-sized room, Sen. Orrin Hatch called for a fair fight. "Neither this hearing, nor any aspect of this committee's inquiry, are intended to serve as an arena for attacking any single company," he said...
...Like a giant stung by bees, Gates looked slightly irritated throughout. He shrugged off charges of monopoly by declaring: "The products that Microsoft makes have a very short life span." He also tried his best to sound worried about the threat from Sun Microsystems, but Sun CEO Scott McNealy got far more sympathy for taking on the Redmond behemoth: "Would you go up against the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age?" he asked. The markets certainly wouldn't -- Microsoft stock was up three-eighths at the hearing's close...
Grune, a former Marine, is supposed to be an interim CEO, but he has dug in deep, and has reportedly told staffers not to call him "interim" anymore. A spokeswoman states that the company hopes a new CEO will be in place by July. That won't be soon enough for the chorus of critics down the river...