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...helped direct the NBA's explosive growth overseas. NBA commissioner David Stern tapped the litigator and lifelong Knicks fan as a special assistant a decade ago and in 1997 named him president of NBA Entertainment. Stern eventually moved all the league's off-court businesses to Silver's unit, which now controls the league's worldwide marketing, TV and Internet operations. Since Silver became the business czar in 2000, worldwide merchandising sales have grown 67%. "Adam has overcome his status as a lawyer to understand branding," says Stern. "He's the doer, and I get all the credit." If Stern...
...network in 1988. A year later, Iger was put in charge of ABC Entertainment. Under his stewardship the network moved from second place to first in prime-time ratings during the 1994-95 season. Through the hit show Home Improvement, a production of Disney's Touchstone Television unit, Iger got to know Eisner, who would become his boss when CapCities/ABC and Disney merged in 1996. The two are now very close. Wall Street analysts say Iger can best stake a claim for the top job by helping achieve a ratings turnaround at ABC (it has recently slipped...
...resume is operations--that's an area in which PepsiCo CEO Steve Reinemund excels. Since the pair took over the company's leadership in May 2001, PepsiCo's profits have jumped 24%. Nooyi's next gig will most probably find her running a PepsiCo unit on her own, a sign that the Iron Woman is getting ready for her solo. --By Jyoti Thottam
...some ways, Noel Tata is an unlikely candidate to take over the Tata Group, India's most famous business conglomerate, which sells everything from steel to information-technology consulting to coffee and tea. The 46-year-old heads Trent, the group's retail unit, which had $27 million in revenue last year--a tiny share of the conglomerate's overall $11.2 billion revenue. But Noel has the right dynastic connections to take over the group, founded by an ancestor in the 19th century. His half brother Ratan is now chairman, and father-in-law Pallonji Mistry...
...CARLO MORI, head of the Carabinieri counterfeit unit...