With his earrings and dyed hair, Hirano is not the typical buttoned-down lawyer in waiting.

CNN: ASIANOW | The Asiaweek Best Universities 1999 | The Rankings | #2 Kyoto University

Not a sports coat but a buttoned suit with a starched white shirt and a pinned tie meant something to her.

NEWYORKER: Uncle Rock

He then issued a simple edict: Each unit had to create "demonstrably superior products" that could achieve "above-market growth rates" "This is not a strategy story, " says the buttoned-down Davis in his London office.

FORBES: Double Dutch No Longer