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...clients to purchase computing power "on demand," signaling to HP and other rivals that Big Blue is planning a war of attrition. With its $3.5 billion purchase of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting earlier this year, IBM acquired 30,000 business consultants, as well as their clients in such markets as finance, retail and government...
...stock-research firm Sanford C. Bernstein (where she was CEO) to be Citi's designated savior. Citigroup's proud CEO, Sanford Weill, personally wooed her, reorganizing a large chunk of Citi around her. Krawcheck is now CEO of a reconstituted Smith Barney, which encompasses Citi's stock-research and retail-brokerage operations...
...company earned $2.5 billion in net profits last year while many retail-tech stars fizzled. Business in the U.S. has more than doubled since 1999, to $2.8 billion in revenues. When Kim, 48, arrived in 1999, Samsung was already turning out some cool products. But nobody had noticed. Its brand image was fuzzy and inconsistent from market to market. One reason was that it employed a gaggle of 55 ad agencies. Kim consolidated that work in a single shop, assigning Madison Avenue's Foote, Cone & Belding Worldwide to coordinate Samsung's global marketing...
...developed a reputation as a marketing whiz at Olivetti and Apple Computer, De Luca took Logitech's helm in early 1998, when the company was known mostly for selling mice to PC makers. Today Logitech, incorporated in Switzerland and with headquarters in Fremont, Calif., sells a wide range of retail PC peripherals known for catchy designs and reasonable prices: webcams, wireless keyboards, game controllers and speakers...
...around the 10,000-sq.-ft. pens, tossing brown food pellets that are met by a swirl of fish. In these 12 pens, there are about 1 million salmon, each a delicious, silver-sided beauty, and when harvested in 18 months, they will fetch more than $10 million in retail sales...