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...business. She points to remarkable progress: Fiorina was far from the only woman at the top of the tech world. Indeed, a major player in her ouster was another prominent woman, Patricia Dunn, who took over as chairwoman. Ann Livermore runs a key division of HP; Patricia Russo runs Lucent, Fiorina's old company. And Xerox CEO Anne Mulcahy is rumored to be a possible successor to Fiorina. The moral: women have come a long way in business, but they can fall just as far. --By Jyoti Thottam. With reporting by Chris Taylor/San Francisco
...Sony, according to International Data Corp. Carp began preparing the ground for Kodak's transformation soon after he took over in 2000, placing people from digitally dominant companies like General Electric and Lexmark International into top management posts. After his first COO, Patricia Russo, left to head up Lucent, he replaced her in April 2003 with Antonio Perez, 59, a former Hewlett Packard exec who had nursed its printer division into a $10 billion dynamo. "I think people will have more confidence in this strategy if they know Antonio is actively involved," says Carp, laughing...
...benefits as full-time employees without feeling the need to give face time or flatter the boss. Steve Israeli, 33, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been working since July 2002 through the New York City agency TemPositions, most recently as an IT manager for a state agency. Laid off by Lucent in 2002, he says he is making more than he was at his last full-time job and, after years of waiting, got his first chance to be a manager. "This is my career, absolutely," Israeli says. James Essey, CEO of TemPositions, says that by moving his best employees...
Indeed, investors seem barely to have noticed. Stocks with a yield rose just half as much as those without a yield in 2003. For example, General Electric, which yields 2.5%, rose 27% last year--in line with the market average. But Lucent, which pays no dividend and barely survived the recession, more than doubled. Lucent's run has extended into the new year--it's up another 38%--while GE is up just...
Listwin set out to fix the software, adopted a more conservative revenue model and made lucrative deals with such companies as HP, IBM, Lucent, Siemens and Sprint. In Japan, phone giants KDDI and J-Phone fed the craze for multimedia messaging--sending enhanced cell-phone snapshots to your friends--with Openwave software. Openwave's annual revenue has stabilized at $250 million. The stock is back above $2. Multimedia messaging is just starting to take off in the U.S. and Europe, via Sprint and Nokia. Analysts expect Openwave to be fully profitable in 2004. Perhaps then Listwin can afford to celebrate...