Word: sought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Where current council president Beth A. Stewart '00 brought us fly-by lunches and fro-yo to Annenberg, students look forward to seeing Seton expand the council's purview to more important student services. At the same time, students clearly sought to temper Seton's focus on student services with Redmond's progressive bent...
...boldly took IBM--and the world--into the computer age, and in the process developed a company whose awesome sales and service savvy and dark-suited culture stood for everything good and bad about corporate America. No wonder the Justice Department sought (unsuccessfully) to break...
Complementing Morita's unusual focus on brand identity were the talents of his co-founder, Masaru Ibuka, the engineering and product-design force behind Sony's inventions. The combination worked well. The two sought to provide the best available technology and quality to the consumer. One of Sony's first products was a transistor radio, produced in 1955. While the transistor was developed by Bell Labs and produced by Western Electric, it was Sony that first used it for a small pocket radio, in 1957, creating a new market in the bargain...
...legend in Japan is Konosuke Matsushita, whose company includes Panasonic and other well-known brands. Witnessing his father's bankruptcy as a small child prompted Matsushita to develop new values of how an enterprise ought to be run. Like Sam Walton, he paid attention to the consumer and sought ways to increase demand and reduce prices. He forced the competition to embrace this concept, making the market grow while creating more profit. He also showed that human well-being and making money are not inconsistent. In downturns he found other jobs for redundant workers and preserved their dignity. This...
...precisely at this awful moment that Henry Luce, the visionary Yalie who had fathered the newsmagazine in 1923, sought to produce a "literature of business." He wanted something much more than the stock quotes and carloading stats that dominated business journalism, and he got it by starting what he called "the Tycoon's own magazine," FORTUNE. The monthly was elegant, oversize, printed on parchment; amazingly priced at $10 a year; the originator of the lengthy, often condemning, corporation story--and an instant...