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...Dell strategy is to leverage its manufacturing and marketing talent to enable it to deliver the kind of out-of-the-box, high-volume operation that made it dominant in PCs. Its partnerships with database king Oracle and Linux maven Red Hat (Linux is an increasingly popular--and open--alternative to Windows for Intel-based servers) give customers access to powerful options. And in November Dell announced a co-branding arrangement with data-storage king EMC. Although Dell operates mostly at the low end of the market, the idea is to climb steadily toward faster and more expensive machines...
...French banker in charge of a 148-year-old French water company, and you get...a global-media megalith called VIVENDI UNIVERSAL, with telecom and cable assets in Europe; TV, movie and music studios on both sides of the Atlantic; and theme parks in the U.S. and Japan. Internet maven Messier, 44, may have racked up too much debt on his recent acquisition binge. But Vivendi posted a 30% jump in third-quarter cash flow, thanks much more to subscriptions than advertising. Just like in the water business...
Meanwhile, conceptual art maven Yoko Ono performed “Blueprint for a Sunrise” (2000), a call for peace and healing, at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT in late October. The List’s annual Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art, which occurred last weekend, featured a panel of artists and critics who decried the war in Afghanistan and waxed nostalgic for the hippie mentality of the 1960s...
Antoinette’s in-your-face attitude must have come off during the reading, because Mary was sure that the publishing maven is an extremely vocal gal. She’ll begin her post-Harvard life working in “some guy’s” publishing firm but will be put off by his, macho “my way or the highway” attitude. Free-lancing is always a good fallback, but, deep down, Antoientte knows that ownership of every step of the creative process is key. After a few face-to-face verbal...
...buttoned-down Japanese executive in his 60s is turning out to be the world's most successful mobile multimedia maven. Under Tachikawa's leadership NTT DoCoMo's wireless data service, i-mode, has put Japan - rather than Europe or the U.S. - at the forefront of the wireless Internet industry...