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In This Issue of Condé Nast Portfolio

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September 2008
Cover Story

Zuckervision

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. Read More
Features
Saving TV

Saving TV

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.
Read More

Speed Kills

Speed Kills

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. Read More

Haim Saban, Power Ranger

Haim Saban, Power Ranger

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? Read More

Wireless Operator

Wireless Operator

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. Read More

Cold Case

Axis of Commerce

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.
Read More

The Quant's Bible

The Quant's Bible

You may not have heard of Wilmott, perhaps the most revered publication in quantitative finance. But at $130 an issue, it's a steal.
Read More

 
COLUMNS
Crude Reporting

Black Hole

Don't blame high oil prices on speculators or low supplies. Blame the market—it isn't working the way it should. Read More

Cruel Fuel World

Interactive Features Cruel Fuel World

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. View Interactive Feature

 
Cybervisions

London Banks, Falling Down

Britain's financial sector is in as much danger as ours, but we can learn from London's remedies—and its failures. Read More

What's Project Runway Worth?

The Harvard Economy

Harvard is cashing in on more than just its endowment. How America's oldest college remains its richest. Read More

Related: Interactive Feature Harvard's Cash
 
Citi Under Siege

Citi Under Siege

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? Read More

Related: SLIDESHOW Money Men
Hit Woman

Hit Woman

The executive who greenlighted The Sopranos at HBO on the state of the network and losing the top spot. Read More

 
CULTURE INC.
Mass Media

Switch Hitter

How the onetime C.E.O. of Sony Pictures became a mogul of minor-league baseball.
Read More

Related: Bases Loaded
MAD Money

Interactive Features MAD Money

Manhattan's new Museum of Arts and Design sells naming rights to just about everything.
View Interactive Feature

 
Tortured Soul

This Unsold House

The $139 million English spec house that nobody wants to buy. Read More

Women in Trouble

Women in Trouble

Picturehouse's remake of The Women hits theaters this month, after 14 painful years in gestation. Read More

 
The Democrats' Lost Tribe

The Democrats' Lost Tribe

Book Review: If the party of John F. Kennedy can't win back the Catholic vote, it will be doomed on Election Day. Read More

The Culturati

The Culturati

What's on these executives' September cultural calendars. Read More

 
BRIEF
Cloaked in Green

Cloaked in Green

The fashion industry's eco-friendly moves are attractive—and hypocritical. Read More

Related: SLIDESHOWS Fashion Weak
Buy Good, Sell Evil

Buy Good, Sell Evil

Pulling out of "terror stocks" can spell trouble for the bottom line. Read more

 
Party Favors

GRAPHICS Party Favors

Companies sponsoring this year's political conventions don't always pick their C.E.O.'s preferred candidates. View Graphic

The Bargain Hunter

The Bargain Hunter

Alan Patricof on today's venture capital strategies. Read More

 
Just Buy It

Just Buy It

Five years after Nike and Converse tied the knot. Read More

The Bargain Hunter

School Daze

What stockholders spend on the tuition of executives' kids. Read More

 
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