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...that were slow to export manufacturing overseas. Last year it acquired the license to sell Royal Velvet, a home-textiles brand that went bust in '03. "We wanted a company that knew how to source overseas," says Rick Platt, managing director of Official Pillowtex LLC, which bought the bankrupt firm...
...make cheap Internet-based VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls through the Cloud's hot spots. VOIP has already eaten into the traditional fixed-line business. It's now 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...
Mitt Romney told the Wall Street Journal last week that if he is elected President, he will "probably" hire McKinsey, the management-consulting firm, to tell him how to reorganize the government. "I'm not kidding," he said, tactfully adding that it might be another management-consulting firm such as Bain (where Romney worked for years and where he got rich) or the Boston Consulting Group. Or he just might call on Jack Welch, who retired years back as CEO of General Electric but has yet to be replaced in the Lee Iacocca Chair as America's semiofficial Business...
John Strand runs a consulting firm that does work for most of the world's big wireless carriers and gets 95% of its revenue outside Denmark. It could be based pretty much in any city with a good airport. He says he keeps Strand Consult in Copenhagen largely because his Danish employees are so willing to argue with him and confront conventional wisdom. "Danes can think out of the box," he says...
...democratic space and there needs to be unions to protect those who provide its content.”But Writers Guild members aren’t the only feeling the repercussions of the strike. David S. Alpert ’97, a partner in Hollywood management-production firm Circle of Confusion and the former president of Harvard-Radcliffe Television, represents various creative forces in Hollywood, ranging from the Wachowski Brothers to the makers of “30 Days of Night.” As a result of the strike, his firm may be forced to dramatically reassess its strategy...