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...Chen seems to be avoiding the giant white elephant in the Superette...
...board of directors at Hewlett-Packard had admired many things about their star CEO. Asked to bring change to the doddering Silicon Valley giant, she pursued the task fearlessly, her efforts culminating in a controversial merger with Compaq. Asked to inject pizazz into HP's pedestrian marketing, she overhauled it right down to the corporate logo. Asked to create a strategic vision for a company that had none, she came up with dazzling insights into "transformational trends" and a hyperdigital future in which HP would serve consumers and corporations at every stage. But the board ultimately concluded that Fiorina...
...changing media world. Eisner granted him interviews; Stewart even wore a Goofy costume at Walt Disney World. But within a few months he had ringside seats as Roy Disney, nephew of founder Walt Disney, launched a shareholder revolt against the man he blamed for hobbling a thriving entertainment giant...
That there was a thriving giant to hobble owes much to Eisner. Hired in 1984, he brought back the company--moribund and churning out flops like Tron--by turning out hit movies like Pretty Woman and Beauty and the Beast. The story gets good when things go bad, beginning in the early 1990s, as Disney falls to intracorporate civil war and Eisner's golden gut turns to lead. (Treasure Planet, anyone...
...house some 30,000 distinctly un-German people, was designed by Albert Speer, son of Adolf Hitler's favorite architect. Forty kilometers away in Songjiang, barefoot migrant workers are building another massive satellite city, this time a vision of ye olde England with tidy Tudor cottages, cobbled paths, a giant castle and a garden maze. In Pujiang, another Shanghai suburb, 100,000 citizens will soon occupy an Italian dreamscape complete with languid canals. In all, at least 500,000 people are expected to live in Shanghai's seven new satellite towns, each designed in the style of a different Western...