Sony’s Reticence in Boom Times Puts It in Position to Step Ahead

This BoomTown column was first published in The Wall Street Journal on November 19, 2001. All rights reserved. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last year, Sony Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Nobuyuki Idei pondered the future of the world’s largest consumer-electronics company caught in the maelstrom of the heady Internet age. What [...]