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...Isaac Whitman and Gaurav Yadav, Harvard's No. 6 and No. 8 players, respectively, also won their matches handily, with Whitman triumphing 15-3, 15-3, 15-6 over Ashley Ebersole and Yadav posting an equally impressive 15-3, 15-7, 15-3 victory over Sujay Desai...
...Whitman, the Harvard Business School-trained CEO of eBay. But if eBay crashes, there's nowhere else to go. And because eBay's job is connecting people--not selling them things--it isn't lumbered with a traditional retailing cost structure. No buying, warehousing or shipping. No taking returns or unloading overstock. "eBay is the only e-tailer that really fulfills the promise of the Web," says Faye Landes, an e-commerce analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. "And the key is its virtuality...
Given how well it is doing right now, eBay's greatest challenge may be meeting the wildly ambitious goals it has set for itself. Whitman maintains that the company is on track to grow 50% a year for each of the next five years. This means that a lot of things--from an expansive push into international markets to eBay Autos--will need to go right. If eBay does keep growing at its torrid pace, it will amount to more than just the world's leading marketplace. It will stand as convincing evidence that despite the recent spate...
...eBay is clearly delighted with its new acquisition. Management is allowing Half to remain unusually autonomous, with Kopelman firmly in charge and its corporate offices still in Philadelphia. And eBay CEO Meg Whitman recently paid the site the ultimate compliment. She quietly began selling her old Princeton textbooks--at prices ranging from$3 to $17--on Half...
Tomorrow marks the beginning of four years--at least--of the reign of George the Second, which promises to be a nervous one for those who care about the environment. George II has anointed Christine Todd Whitman, governor of New Jersey, as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As one of my friends recently said, "Isn't the fact that she's Governor of New Jersey irony enough?" Moreover, his nominee for Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton, is a staunch advocate of opening up the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration. With a slowing economy...