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...business: long-distance phone service, the recently acquired McCaw Cellular phone subsidiary, and credit cards. Name: still AT&T. Revenues: $49 billion a year, based on 1994 figures. Profits: more than three-quarters of the $4.7 billion AT&T earned last year. Chief executive: Allen. (He has named Alex Mandl, his heir apparent, to oversee the transition to the slimmed-down AT&T.) Employees...
...Olson had guided the company through the painful period following the breakup of Ma Bell, when it chopped its labor force 19%, or 70,000 workers. It was Allen, though, who changed the company's lockstep culture. Going against tradition, he recruited top executives from outside, including Alex Mandl, former president of the Sea-Land ocean-shipping concern, as chief financial officer; Jerre Stead, former chief executive of electrical-equipment maker Square D, as head of the computer division; and Richard Bodman, of the Comsat satellite-communications consortium, as top strategist. Allen also brought in managers from small Silicon Valley...
...Mandl was among the students who said he wasn't concerned about the prospect of being inordinately challenged by the exams...
...seems to be working very well right now," said student Kenneth D. Mandl. "At first there was a lot of skepticism because we do a lot of clinical work, but now people realize that this is knowledge we're going to be building...
...need to make an active effort to integrate socially," said Mandl...