Word: cfo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal is vintage Jobs. Amelio began the process of repairing relations between the two longtime rivals. But once he was out the door at Apple, Jobs contacted Gates to try to get talks started again. Gates dispatched his CFO, Gregory Maffei, who met Jobs at his home. Jobs suggested they go for a walk. Grabbing a couple of bottles of mineral water from the fridge, the two took off for a stroll around Palo Alto. Jobs was barefoot. "It was an interesting scene," Maffei recalls. "It was a pretty radical change for the relations between the two companies...
...quick dip, but Ellison's slash-and-burn sales force and espresso-fueled programmers quickly unplugged the challenge. "Informix did tons of things wrong," says Ellison. "They started writing checks instead of software." Last week Informix announced a $140 million quarterly loss and the ritual sacrifice of its cfo, who resigned. It was the kind of victory Ellison likes best: bloody. "Second place," he tells friends, "is still losing...
...share by 1998), others consider the company already stressed: thus the yo-yoing stock price, which remains below its 1987 high. The prediction problem is so bad that according to the Wall Street Journal, analysts attending IBM's investor meetings pay more attention to the body language of CFO Richard Thoman than to the numbers he unveils...
...cruise ships that can be capitalized [paid for] in 120 days." Making shrewd use of capital is Bollenbach's forte. In 1993 he fashioned an elegant solution to quite a different problem: saving Marriott Corp. from collapsing in debt by splitting it into two companies. In 1989, as CFO of Holiday Corp., he helped launch a subsidiary that is now the Promus Hotel Corp. (Hampton Inn, Embassy Suites), in the process selling off Holiday Inns to Bass PLC for an outrageous amount of money. He also rescued casino-hotel mogul Donald Trump from ruin. Trump was personally on the hook...
...said she originally asked for funding fromthe Fila Corp. in a somewhat unconventionalmanner: by leaving a message on the CFO's voicemail...