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...fans disappear. The title on his office will read PRESIDENT OF BASKETBALL OPERATIONS, meaning that Jordan will supervise both players and coaches. His part ownership comes from his buying into a company run by America Online executive Ted Leonsis and businessman Jonathan Ledecky that owns 44% of the Wizards' parent corporation...
...idea, coming from most entrepreneurs, would be laughed off a venture capitalist's private plane. Time Warner, TIME's parent company, last year scrapped plans to launch a women's information cable network, concluding that it would not be profitable. But Laybourne was able to attract investments from the likes of Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft), Bernard Arnault (chairman of the luxury-goods company LVMH) and America Online (which plans to merge with Time Warner), building a programming fund of more than $400 million. She has also drawn a raft of veteran producers and, as business partners, the Hollywood...
Donohue counts being a Harvard parent as one of the advantages she'll have in her job. She can truly relate to those she will be working with...
...parent I bring to the office a deeper understanding of the sacrifices families make," Donohue said. "There is nothing like experiencing something at the personal level to understand what people go through...
There's a difference, though, between avoiding unnecessary mention of competitors and straight-out eliminating their presence. CBS and NBC may be viewed as natural competitors, but in this era of media conglomerates, just about every advertisement indicates a potential friend or foe. CNN's parent company, Time Warner, after the AOL merger now controls an immense number of brands, each of which has several competitors whose logos the network could choose to suppress. Will Microsoft now vanish from CNN, and Pixar from Disney/ABC...