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...Parsons lives in New York and owns a 20-acre vineyard in Tuscany. In January 2005 Institutional Investor magazine named Parsons the top CEO in the entertainment industry. BusinessWeek once dubbed him the "anti-mogul" for his relaxed, down-to-earth management style...
...Parsons joined Time Warner as president in 1995, becoming CEO in 2002 - a position he held until 2007. As a member of the company's board since 1991, he was named chairman in 2003 and remained until 2008. Parsons was instrumental in the now defunct AOL-Time Warner merger...
...persuader, not a dictator. People do things for Dick because he persuaded them to, not because he ordered them to. He intellectualizes outcomes and gets people to agree with his outcomes." -Leo Hindery Jr., CEO of The YES Network, CNET...
...Never going to happen. If you met him in the last few years of his tenure as CEO of Time Warner, you'd know the reason: he doesn't want to work that hard. Those New York business leaders who are trying to convince him to follow in the footsteps of Michael Bloomberg need to find another horse to ride." -Joe Nocera of the New York Times, July 11, 2008, on the odds of Parsons becoming mayor of New York City...
Scott Boilen, CEO and president of Allstar Marketing Group, the company that makes the cuddly cassock, is familiar with Snuggie haters; he's seen Cosgrove's rant. "Publicity is publicity," he says. "At least people are talking about it." And evidently people are also buying it, with more than 3 million Snuggies sold and counting...