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...four-day conference included panel discussions and keynote speeches by Robert Holland, former CEO of Ben and Jerry's Homemade Inc.; Loida N. Lewis, chair and CEO of Beatrice International Holdings, Inc.; and Earl G. Graves, president and CEO of Earl G. Graves, Ltd...
...hard to resist superlatives about the new Dictionary of Art, the idea for which was approved in 1980 by Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister of Britain and owner of the family firm of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., just after the 20-volume sixth edition of the music dictionary was published. (Macmillan, which no longer has ties to the U.S. publisher of the same name, is the parent of Grove's Dictionaries.) If Macmillan had not been a privately owned company, it's unlikely that the Dictionary of Art would have gone ahead. The shareholders of a public company in these...
...carburetors and ignition systems. Bill Gates does not design "cars" but only supplies useful pieces that make them run. What drives the information age is thousands of businesses that pay for the systems that keep the economies of the world growing. W. ROBERT WIDENER, Chief Executive FarSight Technologies, Ltd. Brighton, England...
...stocks and entrepreneurs, however, Wired was quietly affiliated with a Bay Area outfit called the Global Business Network, which garners annual revenues of some $6 million writing scenarios of the digital future for corporate clients. The ties between the two institutions run deep, and later this month Wired Ventures Ltd.--several of whose chief stockholders are GBN partners--plans a public stock offering. If all goes well, Wired and GBN insiders stand to be handsomely enriched by the very high-tech fever they've helped spark. "We have business ties, intellectual ties and friendship ties," says GBN founder Peter Schwartz...
...location on the edge of major markets in North and South America and boasts more than 5,000 scientists and technicians--a skilled work force that is, by Western standards, grossly underpaid (average monthly salary: 400 pesos, or about $10). Peter Scott, chief executive of London-based Beta Funds Ltd., estimates that a European drugmaker could produce its drugs in Cuba for one-tenth the cost of local production...