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Keller went to Adam Block, who wondered aloud whether Keller was ready to return to the cutthroat New York market. It was time to try again, Keller decided. After five days and three all-night negotiating sessions with Himmel, they did the deal. Critically, Block inserted a clause into the contract that gave Keller veto rights on other restaurants in the development. Block didn't want to see Keller's brand tarnished by sharing space with a franchise. He had a $10 million to $12 million investment to protect--fancy New York restaurants don't come cheap. Keller helped line...
...Disney's most profitable brands, ratings have jumped 11%. Shapiro's playbook: original entertainment programming (which now makes up 6% of ESPN's lineup) and more live events, as opposed to ESPN's staple of sports news and highlights. While the critically panned Cold Pizza struggles in a cutthroat morning market, the sports-journalist-debate shows Pardon the Interruption and Around the Horn have scored. So too has a new graphic drama series about a professional football team, Playmakers...
...fact is, Silicon Valley's top chipmaker would be hard-pressed to find a better-qualified candidate. Otellini has been with Intel since 1974 and once served as technical assistant to the legendary Andy Grove, Barrett's predecessor. Last year, as Intel faced cutthroat competition from rival Advanced Micro Devices in a declining PC market, Otellini sat down with his engineering team, which wanted to make a new microprocessor for laptops. His big idea: since laptop owners add wi-fi cards to their machines so that they can surf the Internet wirelessly at any hot spot, why not build wireless...
Dell is approaching its latest challenge with characteristic swagger. Consumer electronics is cutthroat, goes the knock, and selling high-ticket TVs online won't be easy. Shoppers like to see their TVs before buying. "Yeah, I heard that about computers too," says Dell dismissively. As the only computer company to make money for eight straight quarters during the recession, Dell has little time for skeptics who constantly try to paint it as an unimaginative box mover. Three years ago, the company was No. 6 in computers, with a puny 6% share of the U.S. market. Today it leads, with nearly...
...many in the academy say that the very way science is taught and practiced—at Harvard and elsewhere—is shutting women out of the field. They point to the cutthroat competition and a heavy focus on the theoretical in teaching...