Word: foundered
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...Yochai has been a member of our Berkman team right from the beginning," said Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60, the founder and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center. "He is one of the most powerful thinkers in the cyber environment and to have him now come to Harvard is absolutely wonderful...
...founder of Hamas in Gaza, he served as Foreign Minister in Haniya's government. Known as a hardliner, he has said Hamas "will not compromise one inch" with Israel...
...Semel stepped down as CEO this week in favor of co-founder Jerry Yang, a Stanford wonder kid just like those Google guys who burst Yahoo's bubble. Yang is likely to take a back-to-basics approach to Yahoo, focusing on streamlining the company's many ventures to squeeze more revenue out of the company's new Panama advertising system, a revamped ad platform created to compete more aggressively against Google. "Yang's strengths are sentimental, technical, and basic," says Jordan Rohan, technology analyst with RBC Capital Markets...
...There's probably no better person than a founder to rescue a troubled company," says May, "but there may also be no better person to drive it into the ground. History is going to look favorably on Steve Jobs, but there are lots of unwritten stories where founders weren't successful." David Smith, technology analyst at Gartner, says Yang may have too much influence for Yahoo's own good. "Founders have a special place in every company and tend to be listened to longer than they should," he says...
...interview with TIME last January, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield said that there was, for a long time, a lot of uncertainty within Yahoo about whether it was a tech company or a media company. He noted that before Semel joined Yahoo, there had been some drifting and ambiguity about its mission. Recently, though, Butterfield said, Semel had focused Yahoo on being a communications and communities company. That's where it remains today, according to the company's mission statement, and that's where Yang and Decker are likely to focus. "What he missed was the emergence of Google...