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With its dark furniture, high-tech gadgets and model jet plane, Philip Green's London office feels a lot like the work area of an investment banker or hedge fund manager. On the wall behind his enormous desk, there's even a photograph of Wall Street antihero Gordon Gekko. But on this May morning, a daytime-TV segment flickering on his sleek, flat-screened television betrays his role as a master of an entirely different universe: women's fashion...
...international store in Stockholm, he says, Scandinavia still holds tremendous potential. But to grow much larger, Topshop will have to make some radical changes. Today, no matter where its smock dresses or miniskirts are stitched together - or where they're destined - everything passes through the U.K. "The existing franchising model and supply chain would not work for significant global expansion and will need to be adapted," Green says. To construct an efficient, decentralized distribution system is a logistics puzzle management is now attempting to solve...
...brain that's always on the job," says Morris. The worry among Labour backbenchers, hunched over pints and pork scratchings in the bars of Westminster, are those questionable soft skills. Brown must learn to be, well, less like himself, they say. And the role model they've chosen for him? Blair...
...done. Some 19 million voters followed him. In a terse speech on May 6 after his overwhelming victory, Sarkozy said France "has chosen to break with the ideas, habits and behaviors of the past." No more fealty to the notion that France's unique social model can insulate it from the ravages of globalization; no more reflexive opposition to the U.S., which enjoyed a rare expression of Gallic affection when Sarkozy said: "France will always be by their side when they need it." Sarkozy also declared that he wants "to rehabilitate work, authority, morality, respect and merit." André Glucksmann...
Left standing are the great exceptions to the eat-or-be-eaten model, the family-owned companies behind the country's three best newspapers: the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. The Bancrofts were unique in their disengagement from the business they controlled. But their view of the company they inherited as a trust whose value exceeded the dividends it generated was shared by the more hands-on Sulzbergers of New York City and Grahams of Washington. "It's not just family ownership," says Alex Jones, director of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press...