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...expect a corner-office comeback. He says his distance from the C-suite is just as important as having occupied it. "A CEO knows his industry, so he is sick of seeing investment-banking teams come in and tell him he needs to buy a competitor he knows better than any of them," says Messier--a dapper suit and ready smile being his only holdovers from Vivendi days. "I've been on both sides: the advisory and the entrepreneurial side. I know what you feel and what you ask yourself before you make a major strategic move. And I know...
Time and work--and a little help from business friends--have supported a comeback. Messier occasionally meets French President Nicolas Sarkozy--a man he's known for 20 years and who "was one politician who never canceled any appointments" after the fall. Not surprisingly, he supports Sarkozy's dynamic entrepreneurial efforts to reform French society--a kind of cultural revolution Messier attempted within French business circles at Vivendi...
...opening sets of its singles matches, as was evident from the results of those sets: only one firm win—off the red hot racket of No. 2 senior Ashwin Kumar—and another win, by No. 5 freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien, that required a heroic comeback in the tiebreaker.Down 2-5 in the tiebreaker, Omodele-Lucien changed his strategy.“I just decided to focus on hitting out,” said Omodele-lucien, using the term tennis players use for focusing on fundamental play. “I didn’t focus...
...Media timeout. Yale mounting a strong comeback in the last few possessions. Successive turnovers on offense by the Crimson have allowed the Bulldogs to come within four. Harvard's shooting, prolific earlier in the half, has gone by the wayside and the interior problems that have plagued this team throughout the season are once again creeping up to haunt them. Let's see how the Crimson respond after the timeout. [Harvard 29, Yale...
...little,” Rueb said. “In this kind of high level tennis, you can’t wait for things to happen.” With East Tennessee State holding a 3-1 lead, Harvard had to win all three remaining contests to make a comeback with all three going to a third set. At No. 6, Crimson hopes were kindled by Alexei Chijoff-Evans, the freshman recording his third varsity victory in a 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 win. “In the third set, he [Chijoff-Evans] just kept going...