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...WHITMAN When a headhunter begged her to interview at a fledgling dotcom, Whitman, then an executive at Hasbro's preschool division, at first declined. But she reconsidered and within a couple of years turned EBAY into the most successful pure Internet company while making herself the first woman Internet billionaire. Whitman, 44, has made eBay--with more merchandise than ever, including $1 billion a year in auto sales and 37 million users worldwide--a truly global marketplace...
...investment bank to return their phone calls these days, Whitman and her company are held in such esteem that she has been named to the board of Goldman Sachs. Whitman, 44, joined eBay in 1998 and applied the lessons she learned at such old-economy firms as Hasbro and Disney. She did adopt some New Economy habits. Rather than preside from an office, she sits in a cubicle among her employees. Whitman was once criticized in Silicon Valley for stressing profitability over growth, but many of her detractors have since had to move back in with...
...them off the shelves in Honshu and sell them to retail stores in U.S. malls. Takara, their maker, will be unleashing more in August, including Transformer F-15 Starscream and ambulance Ratchet. A new line of He-Man replicas is due to arrive in stores in October, and Hasbro is considering a direct U.S. release of Transformer replicas for next year. Who says superheroes don't live forever...
FACE THE MUSIC Ever wanted to really sock it to Christina Aguilera? Now you can, courtesy of a new high-tech toy from Hasbro called M.A.G.S. ($19.99), which stands for Music Activated Gaming System. Plug M.A.G.S. into a CD player, or anything else that plays music, and it converts the sound waves into a graphics display, which you can shoot to earn points. Extra bonus for nailing Kenny...
...help, I contacted Dr. Judith Owens, director of the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Clinic at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, R.I. She started with our eldest kid, noting that although adolescents still need as much as 9 1/2 hours of sleep every night, they often get sleepy about an hour later than they did before hitting puberty. Ideally, if they go to bed later, they should sleep later, but that scenario conflicts with most school schedules. Thus some activists are lobbying to start the day later at middle and high schools nationwide. In the meantime, Owens suggests that kids steal...