Word: ohga
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...leather case. It even had a second earphone jack so that two people could listen in at once. Masaru Ibuka, Sony's co-founder, traveled often for business and would find himself lugging Sony's bulky TC-D5 cassette recorder around to listen to music. He asked Norio Ohga, then Executive Deputy President, to design a playback-only stereo version, optimized for use with headphones. Ibuka brought the result - a compact, high-quality music player - to Chairman Akio Morita and reportedly said, "Try this. Don't you think a stereo cassette player that you can listen to while walking around...
...highly intelligent individual with superb management skills. But observers in the West are wondering how a foreigner who speaks no Japanese can hope to triumph at a company as clannish and complex as Sony. In fact, Idei himself represented a discontinuity with Sony's past. Unlike his predecessor, Norio Ohga, who was the surrogate son of co-founder Akio Morita, Idei was never viewed as an heir. Insiders referred to him as the company's first "salary-man CEO," implying that he was merely a hire and not a family member. Idei fancied himself as a kind of outsider...