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Colin L. Powell could have done just about anything after he retired as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: head a think tank, sign on as CEO of a big corporation, some say even run for President of the U.S. What he chose to do instead was to help children become happy, productive citizens. By creating America's Promise--the Alliance for Youth, Powell launched a national movement that has historically competitive organizations in the nonprofit sector collaborating for the first time on hundreds of programs...
Meanwhile, the fad of corporate CEOs' promoting their own mugs with shareholder money becomes more brazen and absurd. Not so long ago, the sort of business executives featured in their own company's advertisements were local auto dealers and appliance-store owners. Then along came Victor Kiam (the guy who loved the shaver so much that "I bought the company") and Frank Perdue ("It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken") and, of course, Lee Iacocca. The distinguished silvery head of Iacocca's successor at Chrysler, Robert J. Eaton, is currently featured larger than life...
...money have soared along with the economy. This explains why zillionaires are wanted to endorse products and helps explain why they would do such a thing. There are other reasons, of course. Buffett and Lynch are both pushing products of their own companies. Those I'm-the-wonderful-CEO ads are also justified as being good for the company--at least in the CEO's own swollen head. There has been published speculation that Gates made the golf-club ad in order to seem warmer and cuddlier. This probably isn't true (as his employee, I already find him entirely...
Boasts Steve Jobs, Pixar's CEO and Lasseter's understandably proud boss: "John Lasseter is the closest thing we have to Walt Disney today." Could be. Toy Story, Lasseter's first computer-animated feature, released in 1995, has reaped an estimated $1 billion for Pixar and its production-partner Disney in box-office, video and licensing revenues. But more important, Disney is betting that its heroes Buzz and Woody will endure for generations of kids to come. Says Peter Schneider, president of Walt Disney Feature Animation: "Look at Walt Disney's legacy: he told great stories, with great characters...
...bounced back nicely," said Jack R. Meyer, president and CEO of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages the University's endowment. He declined to comment on the extent of the rebound...