Word: eastman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million oz. of the silver he had bought--after already having some 87 million oz. in tow. Panicky short sellers, who had borrowed silver and sold it in the expectation that the price would fall, had to swallow huge losses to complete the deals. Major buyers of silver like Eastman Kodak, which processes millions of ounces a year into film, faced big increases in raw-material costs. And everywhere families began eyeing grandma's precious flatware as a possible source of cash. "We think we may see the spike reach double digits--maybe $10 an ounce--but one doesn...
...State University of New York at Potsdam and sang at a local nightclub on weekends. When the legendary tenor-saxophonist Illinois Jacquet heard her do You've Changed, he offered to take her on the road with his big band. Instead, she did graduate work at the Eastman School of Music and at the Juilliard School, where she met and married actor Rick Ross, caught the ear of classical-music-business professionals and began her speedy climb to stardom. James Levine, who two years ago led the season-opening production of Otello at the Met that marked her professional coming...
What's wrong with this picture? When George Fisher became the head shutterbug at Eastman Kodak four years ago, things instantly looked brighter for Big Yellow, the world's largest photographic filmmaker. Fisher, who dialed up a triumphant turnaround at cellular-phone and microchip giant Motorola, planned to re-vitalize stodgy Kodak (1996 sales: $15.97 billion) with a burst of digital-age products. Instead of bloody downsizings, Fisher would restore Kodak's faded glory through the magic of growth...
...good job as an engineer at Eastman Kodak Corporation, where lifetime employment was the norm. He had recently graduated from Union College and had just married...
...first in his family to go to college, Gilmartin went on to work for Eastman Kodak for two years before heeding the fateful advice of a friend who had been accepted to HBS on a full-tuition fellowship...