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Foreign policy doesn't interest her; the office manager thinks the country should be run by a CEO. But she isn't sold on Perot, and once again imagines the research she'd do. "I'd like to call one of his companies and speak to 10 of his employees and hear how they feel about...
...this is the lean, fat-free 1990s, and superpremium ice-cream sales have been flatter than Nebraska, which makes Ben & Jerry's just another company with a management problem. So forget all the sugary explanations heard since CEO Robert Holland said on Sept. 27 that he would resign. The party line: Holland accomplished his mission, solving production problems and launching critical expansions into new products and countries; now the company needs a CEO with greater marketing skills...
...Jerry's a lot of useful visibility. Ben & Jerry's has long favored publicity stunts over traditional advertising. Not that choosing Holland was a publicity stunt--but the manner in which he was hired clearly was. The company staged an essay contest called "Yo! I want to be CEO." It attracted 22,000 applicants and was widely covered in the media. Holland did not enter. He was found through a blue-chip search firm...
...want to create games that are totally socialization-based," says Moses Ma, CEO of the San Francisco-based software developer Velocity. He offers as an example a door in a maze that can't be opened unless four people do it at the same time. Ma, who hopes to release his first online 3-D MUDS early next year, says gamemakers and MUD designers are trying to do two very different things: "The game designers come in and say, 'I want to make a game.' The mud designers say, 'I want to manage the ecology of an environment.'" Designers John...
...CEO of a firm that brings overseas visitors to the U.S., Irwin-Hentschel also shows America to the children of South Central L.A., many of whom have never left the economically depressed neighborhood. More than 100 teens have taken free 15-day cross-country bus tours operated by the Noel Foundation; 150 more have gone on shorter trips. "The difference in these kids after 15 days," says Irwin-Hentschel, "is remarkable...