Archive for the 'Money Winners of 2007' Category
Money Winners of 2007: Steve Jobs continues to innovate and impress
Look no further for the biggest Money Winner of the year … why, it’s Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Steve Jobs of course, recently named the number-one most almighty businessperson by Fortune magazine. Take that, Mr. Gates!
In 2007, the man with the scruffy facial hair and the omnipresent black tur…
Money Winners of 2007: Indra Nooyi wants to buy the world a Pepsi
Indra Nooyi doesn’t look like the person you’d assume as head of one of the world’s biggest soda companies. But the India-born, snappily-dressed CEO of Pepsico (NYSE: PEP) was a no-brainer when she was promoted from CFO in October 2006. She was given the additional title of Chairwoman in Februar…
Money Winners of 2007: Renaissance Technology’s James Simons
James Simons is the richest math teacher you’ve never heard of. final year he earned $1.7 billion (a fact that was reported in the media in 2007) as head of Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund compound from which he takes huge fees.
How immense? Simons earns 5% of assets under management a…
Money Winners of 2007: Gulzhan Moldazhanova tops the corporate ladder
Though Gulzhan Moldazhanova is the top female executive in Russia, she is little known external the former Soviet Union. I hadn’t heard of her, and a quick trip to my frequent first stop on the research trail, Wikipedia, surprisingly had nothing on her when I looked.
Digging a little deeper (…
Money Winners of 2007: HP’s Mark Hurd, firing on all cylinders
When it comes to corporate leadership and stewardship, there is no better example in recent memory than Hewlett-Packard’s (NYSE: HPQ) CEO, Mark Hurd. After presiding by a very public corporate spying scandal in 2006, the former NCR lifer has brought HP back from the confused, muddling days of Ca…
Money Winners of 2007: Miley Cyrus finds fame in fictional alter-ego
You’d be surprised, given how few teenagers know who “Miley Cyrus” is, that the young woman is the hottest ticket “since the Beatles.” Of course, that’s considering the 15-year-old daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus is known worldwide as the fictional “Hannah Montana,” created for the Disney television…
Money Winners of 2007: 50 Cent parlays H2O into serious dough
In 2005, hip-hop star 50 Cent (née Curtis Jackson) arised in a loosely autobiographical film, Get Rich or Die Tryin’. Two years prior, the Eminem protégé had released his debut album of the same name. The album was a critical and commercial success; the same can’t be said for the film. Either…
Money Winners of 2007: Mukesh Ambani — home sweet home
Mukesh Ambani is the chairman, managing director, and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries, India’s largest private sector enterprise. With its wide-ranging operations, Reliance Industries has been called India’s General Electric (NYSE: GE), and Ambani’s personal stake in Reliance Industri…
Money Winners of 2007: Alex Rodriguez hits it out of the park
In 2001, Alex Rodriguez, perhaps the finest slugger to ever play the game, inked an unprecendented 10-year, $252 million contract to jump from the Seattle Mariners to the Texas Rangers. Three years later, when the Texas management regained its sanity and realized the ruinous terms of the deal, t…
Money Winners of 2007: The Richest Dog in America
On August 28 of that year, a white Maltese named Trouble inherited a trust fund worth $12 million dollars. Who would leave such a staggering amount to a dog? Why, Leona Helmsley, of course. The hotel and real estate mogul, who was convicted of tax evasion in 1988, left millions to her brother, child…
Money Winners of 2007: For Rachael Ray, success sizzles
Rachael Ray went from scraping together the rent as a sweet counter girl to a multi-millionaire with her own talk show, cooking show(s), magazine, and books that have sold more than 4 million copies. She’s plus spawned a lingo all her own. (EVOO for additional Virgin Olive Oil has entered the po…
Money Winners of 2007: Rupert Murdoch wins again
Believe it or not, News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch does sometimes deliver for shareholders.
Shares of the parent company of 20th Century Fox are down about 2% that year, which while awful, actually is significantly better than other media conglomerates including Walt Dis…
