Word: protegee
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Hartley meets composer Robert Christian Gustafson in an elevator after a dismal job interview and falls instantly in love with him. Star-struck Hartley sees him as one of the city's "miraculous" people who can walk down any street in Manhattan and greet by name the street-cleaner, the...
As far as Tokyo was concerned, Sony America president Michael P. Schulhof had come to personify a chaos and excess that threatened to drag the company down. A protege of Morita's and Ohga's, Schulhof was a 20-year Sony veteran, a physicist who in his early years as...
Jiang's main break, of course, was being chosen by Deng as his successor in 1989. It didn't hurt that Deng lived on for eight years as Jiang's protector or that he eventually grew too feeble to dump his protege--the fate of two previous heirs apparent. But...
Goizueta's anonymity ended after he became a protege of another Coke legend, former CEO Robert W. Woodruff, who became increasingly impressed by the intensity and integrity of the man from Havana. With Woodruff's influence, Goizueta was tapped in 1981 to run the Atlanta-based company. At the time...
Thirty-six years is a long time at any job, much less coaching basketball in the high pressure of the Atlantic Coast Conference, and for the past few years Smith has been talking about retiring to spend more time with his wife, psychologist Linnea Smith, his five children and their...