Portfolio.com: September 2008 - In This Issue
September 2008
Cover Story
by Karl Taro Greenfeld
NBC Universal president and C.E.O. Jeff Zucker has a lofty goal: to rescue television. But saving the industry will mean the end of business as usual.
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Features
by Mark Harris
Whether the big three networks get it or not, their medium as we know it is finished. Here are eight steps they need to take in order to avoid extinction.
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by Jeffrey Rothfeder
Carlos Ghosn promised a hard and fast recovery for Renault. But four employee suicides at one facility have raised questions of whether staffers are working themselves to death.
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by Amy Wallace
Promoting the ubiquitous superhero team helped turn Haim Saban into a billionaire. Now he's America's top political donor. Can he sell a president to his adopted country?
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by Kevin Maney
When Dan Hesse assumed the top post at Sprint last winter, the carrier was bottoming out. In our interview, he speaks about fixing his company's infamously poor customer service, why he stars in his own commercials, and the delay of the Google phone.
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by Christopher S. Stewart
Sanctions? What sanctions? Iranians stock up every day on Pringles and Coca-Cola, courtesy of smugglers from Dubai. How one of our top trading partners is keeping Tehran flush with American laptops and toothpaste.
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by Bryant Urstadt
You may not have heard of Wilmott, perhaps the most revered publication in quantitative finance. But at $130 an issue, it's a steal.
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by John Cassidy
Don't blame high oil prices on speculators or low supplies. Blame the market—it isn't working the way it should.
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by Jeff VanDam
When it comes to the price you pay at the pump, the cost of oil doesn't matter as much as where you live. A global map of gas prices.
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by Jesse Eisinger
Britain's financial sector is in as much danger as ours, but we can learn from London's remedies—and its failures.
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by Nathaniel Popper
Harvard is cashing in on more than just its endowment. How America's oldest college remains its richest.
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by Gary Weiss
Out of nowhere, Vikram Pandit became Citigroup's C.E.O. in the middle of a crisis. Can he pull off the fix of the decade?
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by Kevin Gray
The executive who greenlighted The Sopranos at HBO on the state of the network and losing the top spot.
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by Bob Drury
How the onetime C.E.O. of Sony Pictures became a mogul of minor-league baseball.
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by Jessica Liebman
Manhattan's new Museum of Arts and Design sells naming rights to just about everything.
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by Alexandra Wolfe
The $139 million English spec house that nobody wants to buy.
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by Christina Lynch
Picturehouse's remake of The Women hits theaters this month, after 14 painful years in gestation.
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by Roger Lowenstein
Book Review: If the party of John F. Kennedy can't win back the Catholic vote, it will be doomed on Election Day.
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by Deborah Schoeneman
What's on these executives' September cultural calendars.
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The fashion industry's eco-friendly moves are attractive—and hypocritical.
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Pulling out of "terror stocks" can spell trouble for the bottom line.
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Companies sponsoring this year's political conventions don't always pick their C.E.O.'s preferred candidates.
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Alan Patricof on today's venture capital strategies.
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Five years after Nike and Converse tied the knot.
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What stockholders spend on the tuition of executives' kids.
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