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...Many major Asian firms are controlled by families or a single dominant shareholder, patriarchs who feel little pressure from minority shareholders to bring in fresh blood, no matter how badly the company may be performing. Sony is an exception?its directors and senior executives hold just 0.12% of the stock, which is widely traded in Tokyo and New York...
...capitalize on the popularity of MP3 files, a gap that Apple's iPod-an idea that would once have shrieked "Sony!"-has exploited spectacularly. The Japanese company has been in turmoil ever since April 2003's "Sony shock," when the firm announced drastically lower sales and earnings. Its stock has dropped 66% over the past five years...
...words of Richard Katz, editor of the Oriental Economist newsletter. Edward Lincoln, of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., and author of the book Arthritic Japan: The Slow Pace of Economic Reform, points out that Sony was the first Japanese company to list on the New York Stock Exchange and the first to adopt a Western-style management structure with a board that comprised insider and independent directors alike. "Sony is a global enterprise, so it was expected that at some point a foreigner would become CEO," says Masaru Kaneko, a professor of economics at Keio University...
...shocked when Terry Semel became CEO of Internet portal Yahoo! in 2001. But the ex-Warner Bros. chief has led the company out of dotcom-bubble troubles to a new era of record profits. He has also done well personally, making a profit of more than $250 million on stock-option sales, according to analysis firm Thomson Financial. Semel talked to TIME's Jeffrey Ressner about technology, Tinseltown and the competition...
...looking at real companies with real businesses that provide real services. There may be a bubble in the economy or the stock market but [not] companies like ours...