Word: murdochs
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...London restaurant, just before Christmas in 1999, James got a phone call from his father. They talked for a while, caught up. Then the senior Murdoch said: "Think about China." Days later, when both were in New York, James went to see his father. "Do you like Chinese food?" he was asked. "And that was kind of it," James recalls. "It had been decided...
...tempting to look around James Murdoch's office at STAR's Hong Kong headquarters and see evidence of a transformation, of a formerly rebellious young man who left childish things behind and joined the corporate world, subjugating his personality to his father's vision for his company and his son. It's sizable?though not the biggest office at STAR?with a bank of televisions on one wall and a window overlooking the harbor. The furniture is early modern, but the giant Frank Gehry cardboard chairs from his funky New York office are absent. The nondescript desk is uncluttered...
...transformation is too strong a word. Who doesn't change his look in his 20s? The Gehry chairs? They wouldn't have lasted in Hong Kong's humidity. And there are personal touches on display, like vintage comics and a framed 1977 TIME cover of Rupert Murdoch towering over Manhattan, with the headline: AUSSIE PRESS LORD TERRIFIES GOTHAM. James also admits to keeping a Dewback, a Star Wars creature, in his office, "still in the box because I can't decide?they are always more valuable in the box. But I kind of want to take...
...success. It's unlikely anyone else with his track record could have snagged the top post at a $2.5 billion company that beams its signal in eight languages to 53 countries ("I don't think TV gets harder than STAR," says chief programmer Steve Askew). Yet Rupert Murdoch chose his youngest son as his lieutenant in Asia, just as giants such as AOL Time Warner, Sony and Disney came rushing in. This office?sensible, austere, pragmatic?speaks not of transformation, but of evolution: from Harvard dropout to committed corporate man, from (sort of) outsider...
...almost everyone else, his life and his station are extraordinary. To date, STAR has thrived under his watch, but many questions remain, among them: How does a 29-year-old conquer multimillion dollar markets in India and China while further securing a place for himself in the Murdoch empire? What has James Murdoch learned? And what will his evolution mean for Asia...