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...beneficiary of an America separated into two opposing camps. By default or design, the Democrats are mirroring this tactic. It's an ancient strategy: divide and conquer. How voters react will help determine whether those Elite Force Aviator dolls will still be selling at Christmas 2004 or languishing on eBay. --With reporting by Pat Dawson/Billings, Jeanne DeQuine/Miami, Mitch Frank/New York, Noah Isackson/Chicago, Betsy Rubiner/Des Moines, Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit and Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles
Jeff Jordan is the Tasmanian Devil. At least that's what the folks at eBay decided when they were choosing cartoon characters to represent the top brass for the company's conference-room decorations. Jordan, 44, who heads the auction website's U.S. operations from its San Jose, Calif., base, wanted to be Buzz Lightyear. But his peers had no doubt: he's Taz. "It's something about my energy level," says Jordan. "Plus, I've been known to grumble...
...mania for speed (Jordan can barely sit still through an interview) and impatience with mediocrity sit at the center of eBay's phenomenal growth. A veteran of the entertainment industry and a former management consultant, Jordan was tempted away from a doomed dotcom by his former boss at Disney (now eBay CEO), Meg Whitman. At the time, in 1999, eBay had 400 employees; now it has 5,600. Its share price has grown 33-fold. Worldwide, $23 billion in transactions will pass through the eBay marketplace in 2003. Jordan's U.S. arm handles $14 billion of that. "There...
...came about slowly enough, though I should have known something was up when my parents announced that they were driving from Boston to Kansas City to adopt an abandoned dog. Previously, my parents’ Internet surfing adventures were limited to seeking out the liberal media bidding on eBay for Asian art. In the fall of my freshman year, however, my mother developed a more dangerous obsession: nightly trips to petfinder.com to seek out dogs in need of rescue. Pippi, as we named our Kansas City rescue, was found abandoned and meandering in the median strip of a highway...
...There had been a very strong tradition of having people come to HBS right out of college, but then, the word was out on the street that you had to wait to go to B-school,” Dewey says, noting that eBay CEO Meg Whitman came to HBS directly from Princeton University. “Conventional Wisdom kept reinventing itself. So we looked at our applicant pool and said where are the amazing folks who want to come out of college...