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Through Harvard alumni he knew, he lined up informational interviews about a career in East Asia. When he applied to Mitsubishi international, both his interviewer and the person who hired him were Harvard Business School alumni...
...industrial and cyclical companies like U.S. Steel and Phelps Dodge, which faced withering competition from abroad. At the same time though, U.S. household brands like Gillette and Nike held sway at home and won new markets abroad. No matter how tough the Japanese competed, you never wore Mitsubishi sneakers or shaved with Sumitomo blades. The top U.S. consumer brands showed consistent growth year after year...
...campaign that has been building momentum for more than a year. A score of major U.S. companies have agreed to limit or halt their use of old-growth products under pressure from the San Francisco-based RAN, the Washington-based American Lands Alliance and other environmental groups. Mitsubishi Motors and Mitsubishi Electric agreed last February to use only tree-free products by 2002. Kimberly-Clark scaled back its use of rain forest-wood fiber after the organization published ads depicting ancient forests over the headline OLDEST LIVING THINGS ON EARTH OR TOMORROW'S TOILET PAPER? 3M signed on after...
Trying to shoulder Teledesic aside is Skybridge, an Alcatel venture with allies including Sharp, Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba. This summer, Skybridge upped its number of proposed satellites from 64 to 80 and plans to deliver zippy Net connections to the world's more populated areas by 2001. Then there's Angel Technologies, a privately held firm that envisions bouncing signals off a squadron of high-altitude planes circling above metropolitan areas. (Finding pilots may be a problem.) Angel execs say they'll be able to provide commercial Net access by 2000. Another scheme, from Sky Station, would employ blimps...
Meanwhile, Leigh says he continues to go out to Harvard, Mass. to check on the frequencies and on the maintenance of the radio dish. He is now also working at Mitsubishi Electronics in Cambridge...