Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...details and move on. But the film's star, George Clooney, stood fast. It was scenes like this that had induced him to cut his price in order to make the picture. Besides, Russell was certain that back in Burbank he had Warner Bros.' support. One of its senior executives had told him that if he couldn't occasionally green-light a movie like this one, he didn't want...
...they're working for an aggressive Net start-up, a brick-and-mortar retailer who fears getting "Amazon-ed" or a company content for now to dip a toe into the scary world of e-commerce, they're all interested in the future of your wallet. Says Dan Burke, senior analyst at Gomez Advisors, a rater of e-commerce sites: "We're just getting to the really interesting part, where we see who's doing it right and who's doing it wrong...
Conventional wisdom is that there are some things people just won't buy online, and one of them is a sofa. "You want to sit on it, feel the fabric, see the color, make yourself comfortable for a while," says John Baugh, senior analyst at Wheat First Union in Richmond, Va. But venture capitalists don't seem to believe it. In six months they have poured $200 million into start-ups with names like Furniture.com and Living.com In July, Ethan Allen, the Danbury, Conn., firm that has furnished upper-middle-class American living rooms for 67 years, decided to buck...
Executives at Charles Schwab faced a similar painful trade-off in 1997. In 1996 the discount brokerage developed a separate online unit called e.Schwab. "But customers were understandably confused," says Martha Deevy, senior vice president of Schwab's electronic brokerage business. "The online customers wanted to go into a branch office to talk to someone in person, and the branch customers wanted the convenience of trading online." So Schwab gave the customers what they wanted, uniting the businesses and dropping the cost of all trades to the online price--$29.95. Schwab took a hit in the short run, the price...
...while Schlant was many things--a German World War II survivor, a former Pan Am stewardess, an emigre, a divorced mother (she was married to an Atlanta doctor for five years and had a daughter, Stephanie St. Onge, now 40), an older woman (she's eight years Bradley's senior), a comparative literature Ph.D. and professor--she was not a sports fan. She says she had no idea who "Dollar Bill" was. "I saw him once or twice. We didn't even say hello," she recalls. She had taken the year off from her teaching to work for a film...