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...Franco-American media giant Vivendi, Jean-Marie Messier managed a rare feat in the world of global business. He combined Gallic intransigence with Yankee arrogance to infuriate shareholders and employees on both sides of the Atlantic. The French hated him for selling out their culture, acting like a foreign mogul and moving to New York City. North Americans hated him for losing money and refusing to concede that his strategy had faltered. Even as the company's stock price descended to new lows, he spoke of running Vivendi "for another 15 years." It was more like another 15 minutes...
...local prep school Head and a Chicago-based real estate mogul were among five new members of the Board of Overseers announced at the Harvard Alumni Association’s (HAA) meeting last month...
...releasing his own popularity numbers. Berlusconi began picking up the pieces by naming Giuseppe Pisanu, 65, as the new Interior Minister. More seasoned than his predecessor, Pisanu is a former Christian Democrat who helped build Berlusconi's Forza Italia into the country's largest party after the billionaire media mogul entered politics in 1994. But Scajola's departure comes just six months after Foreign Minister Renato Ruggiero stepped down in a dispute over what he called the government's weak commitment to Europe. In addition to the turnover in these two cabinet posts, Berlusconi has also recently lost...
...careers with the company. It was like our family. It would take care of us. Honesty was essential to Lew. Our integrity was never to be questioned. And nobody ever wondered about our financial statements. He earned his power over and over again. Lew really wasn't the "last mogul"?but he may have been the last knight...
Instead, The Hamptons (June 2 and 3, 9 p.m. E.T.) is a sweeping, empathetic picture of the people who crowd this getaway every summer. Yes, there's plenty of name-dropping: Alec Baldwin, Billy Joel, Kristin Davis, Christie Brinkley and rap mogul Russell Simmons. But there are also young professionals partying in 30-person share houses, immigrant waitresses and the cops, clammers and gas pumpers who live there year round...