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When executives do venture into new fields through mergers, they are now more likely to adopt a hands-off policy toward the acquired companies. IBM last year completed the $1.9 billion purchase of Rolm Corp., a Silicon Valley maker of telecommunications equipment. The button-down computer giant has since left its freewheeling subsidiary largely alone. "We didn't come here to fill up the swimming pool with gravel," an IBM official assured Rolm employees, who have happily retained their corporate hot tubs, saunas and water-polo team. General Motors has vowed to pursue a similar strategy with Hughes Aircraft, which...
...region. "Hong Kong can really develop its status as a film-financing center for Asia," says Raymond Yip, director of service promotion at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, which organized the forum. One challenge will be getting Hong Kong's banking sector involved in film financing. The button-down banks have long been leery of the flamboyant film industry, but they've shown increasing interest...
...reunited Destiny bond over their adoration for thugs and roughnecks. Head Child Beyonce’s main squeeze Jay-Z, meanwhile, is sitting fat back home wearing a button-down shirt, being 35, and heading up a multinational corporation. The bootylicious one’s tastes in men are falling behind the times, it seems...
...brilliant thing that David did was send a message through a laugh,” Schwartzman says of the film. The boyish actor sits across the room from Russell, clad in a Brooks Brothers button-down, dress pants and sneakers. “The ideas in the movie are huge messages, huge ideas that we do need to ask ourselves. They are absurd at times. I think the great thing David did was make the ideas easy to understand...
Ever since that whole “meritocracy” thing happened, true-blueblood Ivy Leaguers have had to use sartorial means to identify one another in a crowd. You know the drill: Brooks Brothers oxford button-down, ribbon belt, tweed jacket and—for the more sporting chap—a pastel Lacoste polo, collar upturned. But wait a second—weren’t half the people in your Tuesday morning Gov class wearing the exact same thing? Welcome to campus style, 2004: Retro preppy is in, and if the morning traffic across the Yard last...