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Last year she taught at the Woodrow WilsonSchool of Public and International Affairs atPrinceton University; currently she is CEO of theAmerican Association of Publishers, and the chairof a committee at The Institute for Civil Society,a social policy think tank...
...Yeah. But not just for big's sake. Neither is this deal about building another empire or another fortune for its chief architect, Sanford I. Weill, the ever hustling CEO of Travelers. It will, of course, do those things. Since last Monday's announcement, Travelers shares have jumped nearly 10%, giving Weill incremental wealth of $123 million. That gets him to $1 billion--before stock options, where CEOs make the big dough...
...deal with Citicorp, whose CEO, John S. Reed, will share the CEO title with Weill, puts tremendous pressure on lawmakers to rewrite largely obsolete U.S. banking laws. Weill insists that he isn't trying to force anything. But members of Congress, who only a week earlier had yet again postponed efforts to dismantle officially the Depression-era Glass-Steagall rules governing banks, are reopening the debate...
...1950s as a messenger for Bear Stearns Co. By the early 1960s he had raised $200,000, and 15 acquisitions later he built Shearson Loeb Rhoades into the nation's second largest brokerage. In 1981 American Express bought Shearson, and Weill tagged along, hoping one day to succeed CEO James Robinson. He preceded him instead, leaving in 1985; Robinson was bounced...
...gamble, but one grounded in experience. "People who personalize," says Kraus, "return five times more often than people who don't." What's more, these users are intensely loyal. "My Yahoo is getting 6.9 million unique visitors a month, and My Excite is getting 4.4 million," says Jeff Levy, CEO of RelevantKnowledge. "And there's virtually no overlap...