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...generosity of John Pepper, a member of Yale's class of 1960, who is CEO of Proctor and Gamble, will likely lead to the installation of paper towel and soap dispensers in all undergraduate student bathrooms at Yale College next year...
...Steel has been pure lead for years. I don't know if CalPERS owns those awful stocks. The point is that real losers are out there. Dumping on Reebok is like saying you don't want Shaq on your team because he isn't Michael Jordan. Reebok founder and CEO Paul Fireman, a fierce competitor, chickened out of publicly responding to CalPERS. That, I think, is a measure of how powerful money managers have become and why CalPERS needs to be more careful about whom it puts on the list. It has become closely watched and uniformly accepted as investment...
...much fun it would be if we could tell the blue bloods to stuff it. The elite banks have long cut us out of things like hot, new stock offerings and timely access to news, research and trading. Too bad Dean Witter, in such a strong position that CEO Philip Purcell emerges as the top executive at the combined firm, didn't adopt the stuff-it 'tude for us. Maybe Purcell figures that the price was right and that with commercial banks becoming big players in the brokerage business, he had to act. Or maybe he's hedging his bets...
...emotional empathy with mankind and his ruthless business prowess, is the intellectual thinker for modern-day society. He knew what he wanted and was determined to achieve it. Instead of being a victim of circumstance, he turned events to his purpose. That's why he is today the ceo of Microsoft Corp., the world's richest man and perhaps the modern-day Napoleon of the technological world. But I wonder, Is Bill Gates as vulnerable as Napoleon was? MATHEW THURING Glen Waverley, Australia Your story on Gates resembled an episode from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Such details...
COLUMBUS: After 19 months in the top job, Robert Massey abruptly resigned as president and CEO of CompuServe. In a written statement from H&R Block, which owns some 80 percent of the online service, Block CEO Frank Salizzoni said that Massey left to pursue other interests, and said he will assume Massey?s responsibilities until a successor is found. Block discouraged speculation that Massey's departure was related to this Thursday?s release of CompuServe?s third quarter financial results, which are expected to be grim. On the service's website, Massey notes that 1996 was a trying time...