The Wang clan cornered

摘要

Maybe Charles Wang's conversion came when he was described by a rival in a glossy business magazine as a "scum-sucking competitor". Maybe the software and services company he founded, Computer Associates, found that its strategy of buying other firms, sacking everybody and enforcing software-contract rights had run its course. Whatever the reason, Mr Wang has been paying more attention to what he calls the "public relations" aspects of running a big company recently. He has stepped up donations to children's charities, bought an ice-hockey team, and even stopped suing his biggest customers with abandon. Yet the more Mr Wang tries to put his bad-boy reputation behind him, the more his chequered past hangs over him.