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Nike's success is all the more remarkable given its earlier technology stumbles. One attempt at a gadget that could measure a runner's speed and distance was a clunky pod that attached to a shoelace. Mark Parker, then Nike's co-president and now its ceo, called the pod...
A Chinese company with a conscience? That runs counter to the world's current impression of the corner-cutting Chinese manufacturer that saves a buck by using lead-based paint on children's toys or that bars employees from bathroom breaks. Yet as bad press surrounding China Inc. grows, so...
Still, many Chinese business leaders, especially in smaller enterprises, do not yet grasp the need to be socially responsible. "The public is not informed enough to hold companies accountable," says Guo, the Syntao website manager. But that, too, is starting to change. In June, for example, thousands of residents in...
This was a character-building experience of a certain sort. It built vast reserves of sarcasm and irony-tools of the journalistic trade, I later learned-which came in very handy when the New York Mets brought National League baseball back to the city in 1962. Those first Mets were...
Until a few years ago... when under new management, a Jewish owner from Brooklyn, a Latino general manager from Queens, an African-American manager from Brooklyn-ethnic New York guys, outer-borough guys like me-the Mets began to hire some wonderful talent, and a sizzling crop of younger players...