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...timing looks at least partly strategic. One of the shrewdest operators of his day, Levin saw an opportunity to choose his successor--and make clear that it's Time Warner, not AOL, that runs the combined company. Levin says selecting his successor was a lot like producing a Warner Bros. film. "We do all this market testing," Levin says, but "the big mistake is we don't know how to end a movie." In choosing a well-liked, up-by-the-bootstraps guy like Parsons, AOL Time Warner has fashioned a classic Hollywood ending to the Levin era. But Parsons...
...consistent pattern of searching out father figures as mentors in each field he's tried, and he's always selected good ones. In Texas he chose (or was chosen by; let's keep that open) lieutenant governor Bob Bullock, one of the shrewdest s.o.b.s who ever walked. Let's just say that if Bush had studied politics under Lyndon Johnson or Machiavelli, he couldn't have done better. Dick Cheney is apparently the new mentor, and I'm favorably impressed, certainly by Cheney's demeanor; one worries because his voting record is so nutsoid...
Grove's built-in drive to succeed, combined with an aggressive business attitude and knowledge of the market propelled Intel to the head of the computer revolution and made Grove, who will deliver today's Class Day speech at Harvard Business School, one of the world's richest and shrewdest...
...prime time with a long-sought chance to compete with the major broadcast networks. And it brings Seagram new outlets for its TV programming through HSN's 18 broadcast stations. It also enables Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. to team up with pal Diller, one of TV's shrewdest programmers...
What links these two women--and dramatically shrinks the distance from Kansas City to Garden City--is one of the shrewdest applications of telecommunications technology that can be found anywhere in medicine today. In 1995 Kansas extended its network of high-speed telephone lines to reach Garden City specifically so that St. Catherine Hospital, a local 132-bed facility owned by the Dominican Sisters, could set up a compressed-video classroom and become part of the statewide nurse-practitioner program. "It breaks the isolation," says Doll, who sits in on her students' classes at the hospital. "It keeps us abreast...