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...from the biggest crisis in its 93-year history. In interviews with The Crimson, Thain’s former Business School classmates remembered his days across the Charles, where he attended school along with his Merrill Lynch predecessor E. Stanley O’Neal, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, and eBay CEO Margaret C. Whitman. James J. Burke Jr., a 1979 graduate of the Business School, said that Thain’s skills were well suited to maneuver Merrill Lynch out of the sub-prime mortgage crisis that has plagued financial firms across the country in recent months. Thain has gained...
...poised to do the same thing to mobile operators, threatening to take a chunk of what London research firm Informa Telecoms & Media says will be a $550 billion mobile-voice business by 2010. Polk volleyed in July, when he partnered with VOIP champion Skype (now part of eBay) to allow Skype software users to call anywhere from hot spots through headset-equipped laptops. If just some of Skype's 66 million registered users connect via the Cloud instead of a mobile network, mobile operators will lose revenue. The Cloud could siphon off even more mobile dollars next year when handset...
...that can be easily programmed to ads that change with every new blog post ? craigslist The classified-ad service has 23 employees but receives more traffic than all but seven other sites ? Linkedin Social networking for suits. It brings together an elite clientele of global executives ? ebay At the auction site, the users are the police: customer ratings
...Facebook experience or crosses lines of propriety—which we don’t know what they are they are yet—it will backfire. It’s high-risk.” Twelve major companies have signed on to the initiative, including Coca-Cola, Blockbuster, eBay, Travelocity, Herbal Essences, Sony Pictures, and Verizon. “I feel like Facebook, recently, was actually made popular because of the fact that it was mostly geared toward students who wanted to get to know each other or just talk online. The whole corporate aspect of it seems like...
Porter will be joined on Romney’s global competitiveness group by a number of business professionals—including honorary co-chairs William B. Harrison, Jr., who is the former chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, and Meg Whitman, president and CEO of eBay. Whitman is an HBS graduate...