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WILLIAM WEIDNER, president and COO of Las Vegas Sands, which is planning to open its second casino in the Chinese territory...
Bookstores around Minneapolis' Convention Center reportedly did not have it in stock, which was one scrap of good news for Disney president and COO Robert Iger. A leading candidate to replace Eisner, Iger cannot be helped in his bid by his portrayal in DisneyWar as Eisner's beaten cur--a disrespected, whiny No. 2 with poor judgment, serving a CEO who wanted a nonthreatening deputy to "take all the s___" of running a company. And Eisner says more than once that Iger is unfit to take his job. Iger, he says, "can never succeed...
...leading share of the market, ahead of Sony, according to International Data Corp. Carp began preparing the ground for Kodak's transformation soon after he took over in 2000, placing people from digitally dominant companies like General Electric and Lexmark International into top management posts. After his first COO, Patricia Russo, left to head up Lucent, he replaced her in April 2003 with Antonio Perez, 59, a former Hewlett Packard exec who had nursed its printer division into a $10 billion dynamo. "I think people will have more confidence in this strategy if they know Antonio is actively involved," says...
Going forward, Jenness will need to retain key players like COO David Mackay who were passed over for the top job. And then there is the challenge of anticipating Americans' fickle eating habits. Jenness was in the boardroom for Kellogg's reaction to the low-carb craze--cereals with a third less sugar and products like low-carb Eggos--but that trend is increasingly in the rearview mirror. What's next? General Mills is betting that broader health consciousness is here to stay and is in the process of converting its brands to whole grains. Kellogg will instead churn...
...force behind Dow Chemical's bounce back from the red last year, Liveris, 50, then COO, helped execute the firm's recovery plan, which included cutting costs and shifting focus to growing markets like China. On Nov. 1 the Australian native and sports fanatic takes over as CEO. His years of running Dow's Asia-Pacific operations will stand him in good stead, since sales in the region are on track to make it the industry's largest market within the next two to three years. --By Barbara Kiviat...