Janet Rae-Dupree

Avis Walton is used to being told where to go and what to do once he gets there. As a “picker” for 99 Cents Only Stores, Walton spends his 5 a.m.-to-3:30 p.m. shift cruising around a 750,000-square-foot distribution center in Katy, Texas, in an electric cart responding to a stream of spoken instructions. “Go to […]

Just before Labor Day, Sony Corp. movie executives abruptly announced the departure of Sony Pictures Entertainment CIO Justin Yaros, and replaced him a couple of weeks later with John Stubbs, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers entertainment consultant who had been working with some of the big studios to develop antipiracy systems and digital rights management software—hot tickets […]

CIO Insight: You were named the CIO of Sony Pictures Entertainment on Sept. 12. You were a consultant in digital rights management. What lessons can the visual entertainment industry learn from the music industrys experience? Stubbs: I think movie executives have the advantage of learning from what Napster and other peer-to-peer networks did to the […]