Word: nobuyuki
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...Sony chief Idei Nobuyuki pulled out every conceivable stop in his tightly scripted two-hour speech, starting with a five-minute intro from Stuart Little, the animated mouse who stars in Sony's forthcoming answer to "Toy Story." Idei also showed off a slew of new gadgets demonstrating Sony's new focus on "the power of hardware in a networked world," including the MS Walkman, a tiny portable device that plays digital music stored on Sony's 64-megabyte Memory Sticks (hence the MS), and a digital video version of the rewritable MiniDisc that lets you perform tricky cuts using...
...Leadership] Nobuyuki Idei President...
...invitation said casual, although the occasion was anything but: dinner at the media moguls' summit, an annual gathering at which financier Herb Allen played host at his Sun Valley digs. Nobuyuki Idei was late and tired, and since he was still wearing a suit, he looked like the carbon-copy Japanese manager that Hollywood had taken to the cleaners in recent years. So the Sony Corp. president doffed his jacket and donned a Men in Black T shirt for his big entrance. "Just a little marketing gimmick," jokes Idei. "But the guests congratulated us." Idei got hoots of approval...
Sony never needed new leadership more than it did in April 1995, when Nobuyuki Idei leapfrogged a dozen more senior executives to become the company's president. As the world's trailblazer in entertainment electronics, Sony invaded Hollywood in 1989 by buying Columbia and TriStar Pictures; in November 1994 the corporation took a $3.2 billion write-off for five years of studio mismanagement. Soon afterward, Sony co-founder Akio Morita, who had continued to help guide the company despite suffering a stroke in 1993, resigned as chairman. Then Sony found itself losing ground to rivals in the race to develop...
Eisner was already angry, having discovered that Ovitz had been secretly negotiating with Sony to take over its troubled entertainment operations. Those talks went off track because of Ovitz's extravagant demands, says an insider. Coincidentally, Sony boss Nobuyuki Idei was also in New York City, and thus his presence fanned the flames of speculation. Eisner arrived around 11 p.m., and was soon closeted with Ovitz. In a meeting that extended deep into the night, the two agreed to call it quits. "I can't imagine anybody having taken a greater fall in this industry," marveled a former entertainment-company...