Sir Howard Stringer was born on 19 February 1942 and is a Welsh-American businessman.
22 Facts About Howard Stringer
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Howard Stringer had a 30-year career at CBS, culminating in him serving as the president of CBS News from 1986 to 1988, then president of CBS from 1988 to 1995.
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Howard Stringer served as chairman of the board, chairman, president and CEO of Sony Corporation from 2005 to 2012.
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Howard Stringer is the head of the board of trustees of the American Film Institute and now serves as a non-executive director of the BBC.
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Howard Stringer attended 11 secondary schools by the time he was 16, including Oundle School in Northamptonshire.
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Howard Stringer received a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford in Modern History.
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Howard Stringer did not serve in combat, but was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious achievement.
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Howard Stringer returned to CBS, where he had a 30-year career.
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Howard Stringer started in a series of lowly jobs, including answering backstage phones for The Ed Sullivan Show.
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Howard Stringer then served as president of CBS from 1988 to 1995, where he was responsible for all the broadcast activities of its entertainment, news, sports, radio and television stations.
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Howard Stringer left CBS in 1995 to become CEO of Tele-TV, a newly created media and technology company formed by US telecoms Bell Atlantic, NYNEX and Pacific Telesis, as well as Creative Artists Agency.
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Howard Stringer was unsuccessful, and shut down most of its operations in early 1997, after having spent roughly $500 million.
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Howard Stringer began work at Sony in May 1997 as president of its US operational unit.
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Howard Stringer was made a Sony group executive officer in May 1998.
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Howard Stringer served as executive chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Corporation of America, and as president of Sony Broadband Entertainment Corporation since March 2000.
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Howard Stringer was promoted to the company's top position as the corporation overall was having trouble with losses and was facing increasing competition from rivals such as Samsung, Sharp, Apple Inc and Panasonic.
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Nonetheless, Sony's share price fell by 60 per cent from when Howard Stringer assumed the role of group chairman until his resignation as CEO was announced in 2012, due in part to exchange rates and the effects of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake.
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In June 2013, Howard Stringer retired as chairman of the board of Sony.
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Howard Stringer has been honoured by Lincoln Center, Big Brothers Big Sisters, The New York Hall of Science and The American Theatre Wing, and has received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Glamorgan in Wales and University of the Arts London.
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Howard Stringer was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II on 31 December 1999.
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Howard Stringer was portrayed by Peter Jurasik in the 1996 HBO film The Late Shift, about the conflict between Jay Leno and David Letterman during Howard Stringer's tenure at CBS in the early 1990s.
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Howard Stringer appeared on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs in 2013.