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When Ying joined Globe Telecom seven years ago, the firm, based near Manila, claimed about 130,000 subscribers. Today, as he departs, he is credited with helping build Globe to 7 million subscribers and $129 million in profit for 2002. Ying, 45, starts in May as COO of a larger telecom firm, Maxis Communications, based in Kuala Lumpur. First on the to-do list of this wine and cigar lover is integrating the recent acquisition of a rival firm, TimeCel...
...arrived in January. A roll-up-your-sleeves manager, Tellier took over the moribund, government-owned Canadian National Railway Co. in 1992 and turned it into a lean and efficient publicly traded market leader. He did that by cutting costs (including 14,200 jobs) and eliminating real estate and telecom divisions to focus on rail. Tellier knows Bombardier, having served on its board for the past five years. Besides dumping its highly profitable recreational division as well as ancillary businesses like military-pilot training, the company is reining in its troubled financing arm, Bombardier Capital, which in the future will...
...relieves himself. On Wednesday nights, the Bluebird offers beer for just 15¢. "We all got fake IDs the second we joined the sorority," says Krissy Selleck, a marketing major squeezed into a booth with four sorority sisters. "The party scene definitely took a toll on my GPA," says telecom major Anna Kumis. "But it's the rite of passage." Some students, however, are fretting that the school's reputation will hinder another rite of passage--getting a job. "I.U. is a very good academic school," says senior Tyson Picken. "But some companies won't want to hire...
George Zicarelli, A 62-year-old videotape editor in New York City, claims he lost more than $455,000 by following the advice of a Wall Street superstar. He invested his life savings in the telecom stock Global Crossing. And he did it, he says, based on tainted research reports by former Salomon Smith Barney analyst Jack Grubman, a onetime guru who has been barred from the securities industry for life...
...that boosted Assa Abloy's stock twentyfold. When he left earlier this year, he took with him a personal fortune of $60 million. You might expect Svanberg, now 50, to ease into early retirement. But last month he took over as president and CEO of Ericsson, the sprawling Swedish telecom-equipment maker that's all locked up in a world of trouble. Ericsson hasn't turned a profit in more than two years. It's had four CEOs in five years and has laid off almost half of its once-mighty workforce of 107,000. Why would Svanberg want such...