Word: cooing
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...operator, cable companies have been furious over the beating they have been taking from Eisner & Co. but helpless against it. "Disney is trying to use the leverage they have with ESPN to make up for all the other businesses that may be troubled at this time," complained Pat Esser, COO of Cox Communications, the fourth largest U.S. operator (6.5 million subscribers), as its latest round of fee negotiations with ESPN began. The two sides are still talking, but Esser has argued that ESPN puts an unfair amount of pressure on consumers' cable fees. "They're trying to overcharge my customer...
...send software development abroad, sales at IT outsourcing firm Cognizant Technology Solutions have boomed, from $89 million in 1999 to $229 million three years later. D'Souza, 35, built that growth as head of operations in North America and Europe for the New Jersey--based company. Now he's COO. His plan: court European clients and expand in India, where the company is building a facility for 6,500 software pros. Next up: China, where Cognizant won its first client last year...
...name in radio, running Infinity Broadcasting, which he sold in 1996 to Westinghouse (which had acquired CBS a year earlier). He became CEO of CBS in January 1999 and within a year persuaded Viacom chairman and CEO Sumner Redstone to buy CBS for $40 billion. Now, as president and COO of Viacom, Karmazin presides over a portfolio whose holdings include MTV, UPN, Paramount Pictures and Simon & Schuster and whose revenues in 2002 were $24.6 billion. With a stable roster of executives and an A-minus credit rating, Viacom is one of the best-positioned giants in the media industry...
Charlie Bell likes results--now! The McDonald's president and COO won't wait for outdated weekly, much less quarterly, sales reports. Every day he checks sales totals in all 118 countries with McDonald's franchises. "I'm a results guy," says Bell, 43. "I like knowing." The Australian-born Bell joined the company's new management team when James Cantalupo became CEO early this year. That means Bell is in line to eventually become the first non-American to head the iconic U.S. company...
...full. He got his first real job at 15 at the Kingsford McDonald's, became the youngest store manager Down Under at 19 and was managing director of McDonald's Australia by 35. Bell went on to run the company's Asia-Pacific and Europe operations before becoming COO last January...