Journal of Business Strategy articles from September 1995

Journal of Business Strategy archives from September 1995

Virtual venues: bringing content to the media market.(New World)
September 1, 1995... What took them so long? That was Fortune magazine's reaction to Walt Disney's blockbuster acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC in August. Industry observers hailed this $19 billion combination of Disney's movies, TV shows, theme parks, and...

Beder & Rahl: the doctors are in. (risk managers Tanya Styblo Beder and Leslie Lynn Rahl)(includes related articles)(Strategists to Watch)
September 1, 1995... The common sense element has played significantly in the disasters we've seen," Tanya Styblo Beder says of the risk management assignments she and her partner, Leslie Lynn Rahl, have undertaken for the financial services industry. "You can be...

Scott Kurnit: recasting the Net. (president and CEO of joint venture between MCI and Delphi Internet Services Corp.)(includes related article)(Strategists to Watch)
September 1, 1995... You say you're a multi-billion dollar telecommunication company with a very successful core business in long distance, wireless and local access, and paging, and you just spent $2 billion investing in a heavily indebted media corporation. You...

Michael Bloomberg: terminal man. (founder and president of Bloomberg Financial Markets)(includes related articles)(Strategists to Watch)
September 1, 1995... Hundreds of thousands of financial professionals, upscale consumers, and regular folks start their day with juice, coffee, and some form of news provided by Bloomberg Financial Markets. "If a person is a financial professional, they have the...

Patricia Cloherty: capital gains. (president and general partner of Patricof and Co. Ventures Inc.)(Strategists to Watch)
September 1, 1995... During a visit to a biotech company, Patricia Cloherty noticed a can opener attached to a wall, enabling the user to open a container without any reflex, action. In the "clean room" atmosphere of these facilities, where handling volatile...

Scott Flanders & David Wan: adventures in virtual publishing. (officials at Simon and Schuster)(includes related articles)(Strategists to Watch)
September 1, 1995... "We've changed more in the last five years than in the previous 20," Scott Flanders, president of Macmillan Publishing USA, says of the high-tech revolution that is transforming his company and its corporate parent, Simon & Schuster, into an...

R.W. Van Sant: stepping up to the plate. (Lukens chairman)(includes related articles)(Strategists to Watch)
September 1, 1995... In a sleepy corner of eastern Pennsylvania, state-of-the-art technology is transforming a 19th Century steelamaker into a 21st Century mega-force. If Rebecca Lukens could see her plate business, begun 186 years ago at the oldest, continuously...

Alan Rypinski: in POG heaven. (World POG Federation)(includes related articles)(Strategists to Watch)
September 1, 1995... Alan Rypinski, the marketing maven who made Armor All a household name, is banking he'll do the same for a vastly different product: water-like, cardboard milk caps kids flip, slam, collect and, so far, can't seem to get enough of. Through his...

John Hunkin: banking on diversity. (CIBC Wood Gundy president)(includes related article)(Strategists to Watch)
September 1, 1995... When a NYNEX-LED group needed financing to build a 17,000-mile undersea fiber optic phone link between Europe and the Far East, it turned to CIBC Wood Gundy, the capital market and trading arm of Canada's second biggest bank, the Canadian...

Brett Prager: head of the class. (founder and CEO of Collegiate Health Care)(includes related articles)(Strategists to Watch)
September 1, 1995... With colleges under constant pressure to keep tuition down, it's not surprising that many are looking for a prescription for cutting costs in their student health programs. For the past three years, Collegiate Health Care has offered them just...

Tony Murray: going by the book. (Filofax president)(Strategists to Watch)
September 1, 1995... Five years ago the Filofax personal organizer was in danger of becoming an anachronism of the '80s, taking its place alongside other "Whatever happened to... ?" subjects like Boy George and Pac-Man. It was the downside of a steep climb to the...