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...with us now that we?re World Champs-the BLOHARDS are, today, something bordering on semi-famous. ESPN found out about us in early ?04, and FOX followed, as FOX is wont to do. We got better known throughout the season, and Jim Shea, a diligent BLOHARDS exec, now tells me the membership roll is climbing up to some crazy number like two thousand. Front-runners are certainly among our rookies, but, hey, what the hell. They pay their dues, they?re fine with...
Incoming chief executive Robert Iger badly wants to change that. Unlike his predecessor, Michael Eisner, who never seemed comfortable with international expansion--"Going to China and the Far East might as well have been Mars," the anonymous former exec says of Eisner--Iger has made boosting Disney's overseas revenues a priority. China is a personal Iger favorite. He has made numerous visits, lunched with senior leaders and even dropped in for a movie at a Shanghai cinema. It was so modern, Iger says, "I might as well have been in a multiplex in Indiana...
Ultimately, GE's contradictory behavior on the environment is completely rational. Selling green goods represents growth and profit. Spending money to comply with antipollution laws and paying for cleanups represent cost centers--and every GE exec knows you reduce cost and feed growth. No wonder, then, that Immelt dismisses the naysayers on either side of his green initiative--the environmentalists who grouse that GE is being hypocritical and the conservatives who complain that companies should not spend an extra cent on the environment since that wastes economic resources. "There are just some people you don't listen to," he says...
...While attending Harvard did you have any idea you would become a studio exec? Is there anything you regret not having done that might have better prepared you for this...
...wants a deputy with more business savvy to see those programs completed. England's predecessor, Paul Wolfowitz, preferred strategizing grand operations like the Iraq war over managing the nuts and bolts of the department, which is what a deputy defense chief traditionally does. England, a seasoned defense-industry exec who helped develop the F-16 fighter, isn't a neocon ideologue like Wolfowitz and has cultivated warmer relations with Congress. In 2002 he helped save billions of dollars by combining the Navy and Marine Corps aviation programs, and he has been given politically sensitive duties, notably overseeing the Pentagon...