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...been elected to the Alpha Chapter Phi Beta Kappa. Those elected are: Hillel M. Bennett of Lowell House and Swampscott; Robert J. Doris of Winthrop House and Woonsocket, R.I.; Michael A. Fifer of Lowell House and Elmhurst, N.Y.; Elliot F. Gerson of Quincy House and Storrs, Conn.; Frederick O. Holley of South House and La Jolla, Calif.; David L. Johnson of Adams House and Indianapolis,; Herman B. Leonard of Currier House and New York City; Joseph F. Nagy of Claverly Hall and Arlington; Eliot W. Nelson of Dunster House and Berkeley, Calif.; Edward M. Stolper of Winthrop House and Newton...
Overbuilding in the telecommunications sector has slashed overseas cable costs as much as 80% since 1999, encouraging the flight overseas. Derek Holley, president of eTelecare, which owns call centers in the Philippines, says international lines that cost $40,000 a month in 1999 can be leased for about $7,000 today. The line quality has improved so much that his company can pack twice as many digitized calls, with better sound, into the same number of circuits. "Suddenly price wasn't a huge obstacle," he says, "and the world really was open...
State-run banks bailed Holley out by lending Wang and his managers money to buy the company. By 2001, he owned 27% of the newly privatized firm and set out to reinvent it as an international tech powerhouse...
After failing to ride Kanga Roddy to riches, Wang paid an undisclosed sum in late 2001 to Dutch conglomerate Philips. He bought an operation that designs mobile-phone handsets and other components and has about 65 employees in Vancouver and Dallas. China's media hailed Holley as the next Haier, the Chinese appliance giant with a factory in South Carolina. But Holley is no Haier. Only a handful of small customers have signed recent deals, and a former manager at the Vancouver office says Holley doesn't have the resources to develop next-generation technology. (A Holley spokesman says...
Back at headquarters in Hangzhou, Wang recently sat at a table with some Thai businessmen seeking investment in a phone plant. A TV-news crew had videotaped their arrival. A Thai executive asked whether Holley had reviewed their proposal. "Not yet," he was told. If Holley were to invest, the executive asked, what was its timeline? "The sooner the better!" Wang replied. And with a handshake, China's hottest private company seemed on the way to its next deal...