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...constituencies to worry about: 12 jurors and the tens of millions of his fans whose approval pushes Nike, Coca-Cola and McDonald's to pay big bucks for his face. Every athlete's endorsement agreement has a public disrepute clause that lets the sponsor duck out if, as one contract reads, "any party or its principal(s) is indicted on a felony criminal charge of moral turpitude...
India exports $9.5 billion in code annually--but almost all of it is written under contract for such mammoth outsiders as Microsoft. Hukku, 45, wants to change that. I-flex, which began as a separate business in 1988, sells a range of products under its Flexcube label that help financial-services companies manage banking, credit-card and other transactions. It's a competitive field, dominated by firms like Temenos and Misys, but i-flex has customers, including the American Stock Exchange, in more than 90 countries. With fiscal 2003 revenue of $134 million and 2,370 employees, Hukku's company...
...responsible young woman who signed a contract would do, I went back to the office. And honestly, I like it. True, I’m having a different, more subtle kind of fun where fluorescent lighting shines instead of summer sun. But I know it’s good for me. For a change, I’ve been listening to my mom, who encourages me to experience new things all the time—it will teach me to pick the right path in the end. She says I’ll gain perspective...
Vladimir Putin tries hard to convince the world that Russian business has changed since the wild '90s, when it was synonymous with dodgy privatization and contract killings. These days he wants to depict the Russian corporate world as dynamic, modern - and predictable. That image shattered last week when the Kremlin went head to head with Russia's richest man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the 40-year-old proprietor of the oil giant Yukos and the richest man in Russia. The markets dropped abruptly, and polite discourse was infused with language reminiscent of The Godfather. The operation against Khodorkovsky, pundits and Yukos supporters...
Though the janitor’s contract is not under negotiation now, Touborg said University officials and union representatives meet regularly to iron out problems...