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...Davos: most executives said that both their customers and their suppliers had become more global over the past five years. Likewise, just over half said their employees now come from a wider array of countries than ever before. But asked how well prepared they thought their organizations were to succeed as global enterprises, 22% said they were either "extremely poorly" or "somewhat poorly" equipped. Strikingly, there were huge national differences, with British, French, German and Spanish executives showing the most confidence, Americans displaying average confidence, and Chinese and Japanese the least. Almost one in two of the Chinese...
...Schwartz said that “the design school is a difficult place for woman designers to succeed.” Getting things done requires “force,” but “it’s damn unladylike to have an opinion to have an ego, it’s antithetical to get things done,” she said. “I’m a bit of a dancing bear...
...part of the capital culture and doesn't care to be. He avoids the social circuit, preferring to spend his time reading nonfiction, power walking and doing yoga (yes, yoga--four times a week). "I try to be in the background more than the foreground," he says. "And I succeed most of the time." That's because Reid knows better than most where the real work gets done...
Will the iPhone succeed? Well, what's success? Apple will break the 100 million mark with iPods this year (it also passed 2 billion songs sold on iTunes). Jobs says he wants to move 10 million iPhones by the end of next year. That number is well in character as far as its ambition goes. The iPhone is exclusive to Cingular for now, and Cingular has only 58 million customers. Jobs hopes to launch in Europe late this year and Asia in 2008. The iPhone is too beautiful and too brilliant not to be a moneymaker...
...Adam Goldenberg ’08 will serve as chair of the board, rising from the vice-chair position he held during the CEB’s first semester of operation under outgoing chair Tessa C. Petrich ’07. C. Kai Wu ’09 will succeed Goldenberg as vice-chair. Goldenberg said that he expects the CEB to attempt to put on “more consistent, smaller-scale programming this year” in addition to the traditional large events—the next example being Yardfest in April—that have marked previous...