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...loss for Siemens--and bitterly ironic in that Kleinfeld had acted boldly not only in responding to the investigation but also in separating Siemens' culture and strategy from that of Von Pierer's. Kleinfeld appointed the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP to do a complete audit of the company, and another heavyweight, Davis Polk & Wardell, as corporate counsel. He named Daniel Noa, a former German prosecutor, as the company's new chief compliance officer (CCO) and hired Michael Hershman, a former U.S. military intelligence officer and one of the founders of anticorruption watchdog Transparency International, as a compliance consultant...
...scent business isn't all wine and tuberoses. Technological advances, consolidation and the race to get into new markets are shaking up the industry. IFF is Pepsi to Givaudan's Coke, and the two firms account for about 30% of the $18 billion global market for flavors and fragrances. Givaudan lurched ahead this spring by buying Quest, which had been the market's fifth leading player. IFF is coming out of a rough spell, with three different CEOs since 1999. "There has been a lot of turmoil at the top," says John Leffingwell, president of Leffingwell & Associates, an industry consulting...
Kaufmann, an architect who specializes in sustainable design, soon realized that Blurb could help transform her business. Impressed with the quality of the finished product, she turned to a more important task: a book that would feature the work of Michelle Kaufmann Designs, the Bay Area firm she founded in 2003. She had been approached by conventional publishers in the past, but as a small business, she didn't want to wait years to accommodate publishing's long lead times. "I thought, This is the book we've been wanting to do," she says. She spent two months pulling together...
Blurb, like other publishing websites such as Lulu and Picaboo, is producing its share of baby books, family-recipe cookbooks and wedding albums. But its most enthusiastic users are drawn to the company's extensive design tools. Stone Yamashita Partners, a consulting firm in San Francisco, recently published a 300-page book detailing the kind of strategy work it does with clients. "Blurb provided the highest quality with the quickest turnaround we could find," says David Glickman, principal at the firm, "as well as the flexibility and control over the look, the feel and the flow...
...misinformed.’” Richenthal, who co-produced the Tony Award-winning play “I Am My Own Wife” and the 2002 production of “The Crucible,” took a less direct path, co-founding a law firm after graduating from the Law School, yet always dreaming of a career in the arts. “Once I felt I had learned enough,” Richenthal said of the switch to theater production, “I stopped malpractice and went into this full time...