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...donned a Men in Black T shirt for his big entrance. "Just a little marketing gimmick," jokes Idei. "But the guests congratulated us." Idei got hoots of approval for Sony Pictures Entertainment's biggest film of the year from the likes of Disney CEO Michael Eisner, Intel boss Andy Grove, Seagram's Edgar Bronfman Jr., Time Warner's Jerry Levin and DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg, to name...
While his engineers race to mix and match technologies, Idei has been forging as many business alliances as possible. Besides Grove at Intel, the Sony chief is spinning deals with Microsoft. Last April, Microsoft paid $425 million for WebTV Networks Inc., an Internet software provider that uses Sony hardware. IBM's Lou Gerstner could be a key partner in shaping a future DVD format. In May, through Idei's personal connections with Rupert Murdoch, another Sun Valley buddy, Sony announced it would cooperate with News Corp., Fuji Television Network and Softbank, the Japanese company that owns Ziff-Davis...
...PACIFIC GROVE, Calif.--With such 1970s hits as "Rocky Mountain High," "Sunshine on My Shoulders" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads," John Denver was a wholesome, wire-rimmed hippie who turned out sunny music for cynical times...
...group of Army recruits relaxed last month in a grove of tall oaks at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., finishing their catered lunch of roast turkey, scalloped potatoes, green beans and apple pie, Captain Lee McQueen's cell phone rang. The call was from his commander, warning that a practice assault planned for the base's bayonet-combat course might have to be called off: the mercury was creeping into the 90s. McQueen's team of drill sergeants--those fabled hard-noses delegated to whip raw recruits into shape--went into action. They dutifully set up a "wet-bulb globe-temperature...
...John Chambers, 46, attracts more groupies at trade shows than the Spice Girls on a London street. Says fund manager James Cramer: "Other than Andy Grove, the guys who manage Microsoft and maybe Lou Gerstner, there's no better management than Chambers and Cisco. In any industry." Cisco recently unveiled its latest eye-popping numbers--52% sales growth with gross margins reaching 65%. And the company pulled this off during a wrenching product transition...