Experiment 3 - The Clients and Articles

Zhang Yin

[..."My goal is to make Nine Dragons, in three to five years, the leader in containerboards," Zhang said emphatically during a short interview in her Hong Kong office. "My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry."...]

['......She has not lost her ambition, though. Sometimes called the Queen of Trash, she doesn't disown the title. But, she said, "Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of container boards."]


Source: "China's 'Queen of Trash' finds riches in waste paper" from International Herald Tribune.

Link: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/15/business/trash.php?page=1




Carlos Slim

[For Slim, a onetime math instructor, this was no mere academic exercise. Yes, he wanted to instill in his sons the same lesson his father - a Lebanese immigrant who started acquiring real estate in Mexico City during the Revolution of 1910 - taught him: Though Mexico will have its ups and downs, don't ever count the country out. But Slim wasn't just teaching, he was buying. He spent $55 million on an insurance company. He took a stake in retailer Sanborns. He invested in a hotel chain.]

[Even as Slim was keeping competitors out of Mexico, he was looking to expand beyond his home country. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, who worked in Mexico from 1992 to 1996 overseeing SBC's investments, vividly remembers talking strategy with Slim in 1995. "It's always a late night with Carlos," says Stephenson,...]

Source: "Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world" from CNNMoney.com.

Link: http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/03/news/international/carlosslim.fortune/



Ratan Tata

[...The 69-year-old still goes to the office every day and, though he owns a collection of Western luxury cars and has a pilot's license, shuns ostentation. Tata has a reputation to defend as a living legend in the business world, shrouded in an aura of humility that borders on self-denial.]

[Actually, we have invested more within India than abroad. But there is indeed a perception that the opposite is true. Many of our domestic projects are unfortunately sitting around waiting for political approval.]

Source: "INTERVIEW WITH INDIAN INDUSTRY MOGUL RATAN TATA" from Spiegel Online International.

Link: http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,476262,00.html