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...billion company, which by the way is America's most respected brand, according to a Harris poll. Strategically, Sony is taking the plunge into the digital, wired world. It had little choice. Sony got rich and famous by building a series of great gadgets--the transistor radio, the Walkman, Trinitrons--that took advantage of unique technical advances, like those in miniaturization. Although Sony still makes a ton of money on Walkmans, its competitive edge in such stand-alone products is fading in a world where music and video are increasingly being rendered in the digital language of computers. So Sony...
...professor, Idei is a Sony lifer who started in 1960, straight out of Tokyo's prestigious Waseda University. Waves of surprise rippled through the company when Idei was tapped for the top job in April 1995. He leapfrogged a dozen more senior managers, accomplished executives with nicknames like "Mr. Walkman," "Mr. Semiconductor" and "Mr. Camcorder," for their roles in Sony's engineering triumphs. Idei was quite different. He studied European history in college. He's fluent in French and English, and held a number of marketing jobs in Europe and Japan...
...intruders broke into the office of Randy Scott, another teaching fellow, on a different corridor of the fourth floor and stole Scott's laptop. They also entered the office of a fourth-year graduate student on the seventh floor in the Statistics Department, who noted the theft of a Walkman from that office but asked not to be named...
...Timothy Wang '00 said a watch, a Walkman and an electronic organizer were stolen from his room at about 1 a.m. on Thursday when Wang went across the hall to visit friends and left his door unlocked...
That same evening, vandals struck the female first-year's room again, taking a Walkman and tossing a cassette tape into a bowl of water...