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...years later, Kutaragi took a bigger gamble on PlayStation 2, sinking $2.5 billion into the start-up; it has captured about 75% of the home-video-game-console market. Kutaragi's division racked up nearly $10 billion in annual sales and contributed 58% of Sony's operating profit in its most recent fiscal year...
...grown weary of the shenanigans of energy companies like Enron, the oilman commands respect--and earns it--by pumping twice as much oil out of the ground as Kuwait does. As ExxonMobil's senior vice president for exploration and production, he was responsible for 80% of the $11 billion profit generated last year by the world's largest private oil company. The challenge: Can Tillerson, 51, ride that success to become...
...York City last month, a nonprofit group called Women's World Banking organized a three-day conference at Goldman Sachs that the hosts dubbed "Wall Street Meets the World of Microfinance." As a subset of socially responsible investing, microlending has a compelling "double bottom line": make a profit and alleviate global poverty. Pension funds, university endowments and large corporations have been sniffing around for opportunities, but all--understandably--want to see good track records first. That's starting to happen. Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's have begun either to rate microfinance transactions like bond issuances or to rate...
Deutsche Bank is recruiting corporate investors for its pioneering for-profit microcredit venture by pointing to its successful four-year trial run with a private donor-backed fund. Both funds seek to lend credibility--in the form of hard-currency collateral--so that MFIs can establish relationships with local banks and get better loan rates. Likewise, Citigroup has used its branches in places like Kenya to make local-currency loans to MFIs, with the hope that conservative local banks will follow suit...
...massive baking endeavor was the work of volunteers who came together to help Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) participate in the annual Pie in the Sky fundraiser, a bake-off to benefit Community Servings, a non-profit that delivers food to people with AIDS who cannot leave their homes...