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Inventing a better mousetrap
How Anne Sweeney sparks employees to find the next great innovation at Disney Media Networks
Anne Sweeney likes to think about how taking a risk on a cartoon mouse can turn into a $35.5 billion entertainment juggernaut.
That keeps Sweeney...
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Tune in, turn on
How Mike Muench gives his staff the freedom to succeed at Line 6 Inc.
Mike Muench’s leadership style is based first and foremost on
one thing: passion. Therefore, as president and CEO of Line
6 Inc., a co...
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Simon Wright
CEO, Virgin Entertainment Group International
The entertainment industry is filled with people who subjugate their personalities to succeed, but Simon Wright, CEO of Virgin
Entertainment Group In...
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Changing channels
How Dawn Ostroff merged two former rivals into The CW Television Network
For four years, Dawn Ostroff worked to make UPN the network for 18-to-34-year-old television viewers, battling a larger, more entrenched competi...
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Swinging for the fence
Dodgers’ president Jamie McCourt shares her thoughts on leadership and the secrets of the team’s turnaround
In February 2004, Jamie McCourt was living a dream.
She and her husband, Frank, had just purchased the Los Angeles Dodgers from NewsCorp., and withi...
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Business by Jake
Jake Steinfeld turned opportunity into a global empire.
Jake Steinfeld readily admits he didn’t come to California to become an entrepreneur. But when the opportunity presented itself, he grabbed it and hel...
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Game on
How THQ CEO Brian Farrell turned a small video game maker into an industry giant by licensing brand names and building around a base product.
When Brian Farrell became CEO of video game maker THQ in 1995, he knew the company needed a base product to build around.
But Farrell, who joined th...
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