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Which helps explain why corporations from IBM to General Motors are falling over themselves to do deals with the Web auction giant. Disney auctioned off the "D" from the original Disneyland sign. Technology titan Sun Microsystems sold server hardware on the site with million-dollar starting prices. Yet despite such big-league partnerships, it's still the little guy that counts. Unlike your local mall, eBay would not survive for a second without mom and pop operations. Its entire success is predicated on extreme diversity. And you can forget about the pernicious influence of Madison Avenue. In this hypermodern arena...
DIED. CHUNG JU YUNG, 85, industry titan who helped revive South Korea's war-torn economy with his founding of the Hyundai Group; in Seoul. Chung, whose company's cars and electronics embodied his country's "economic miracle," had seen his reputation tarnished in recent years through debt, an inability to streamline the firm in the face of the Asian financial crisis, and allegations of fraud and cronyism. Last year the Hyundai Group was splintered by two of his sons, who served as the company's co-chairmen...
...University. But there is little desire to reach out to the outlandish members of today's undergraduate community who devote themselves to organizations that had no place at Harvard just 20 years ago and to causes that may seem, shall we say, nonsensical to the average graduate-turned-titan of Wall Street. ("A living wage is not economically sound...
Earnhardt had been a wild-child teenager, as reckless as they come and headed for nowhere, but he grew up to be his sport's father figure, Dad without the breaks, and a corporate titan to boot. He could regale a crowd of GM dealers with war stories for an hour--Mr. Charm--then shift gears in a heartbeat, chiding drivers who wanted to slow the cars down as "candy asses." He made tens of millions of dollars racing and tens of millions more running Dale Earnhardt Inc., but even at 49, a man of considerable responsibilities and with nothing...
...dark secret that none of the campus recruiters or the Office of Career Services staff will tell you, but if you want to be a titan of the business world one day, you certainly don't need to spend your early twenties locked on the 38th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper, running spreadsheets for 14 hours a day. Business, at its core, is a creative enterprise--so why not exercise a little creativity in finding your first job in the business world...