While Democrats are moving to spotlight ties of Republican candidates to business, many have found themselves standing on the same corporate stage.
Now, Mr. Suriadjaya (pronounced sir-ya-JAI-ah) has returned to the corporate stage as a high-technology entrepreneur planning to build a stable of dot-coms and turn Jakarta's old airport into Indonesia's Silicon Valley.
And corporate stage-door Johnnies, prepare to swoon: For the first time, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Bill Gates –still the chart-topper on the Forbes World's Richest People list will be on hand for an ISP launch.
The Mavericks' story is the kind that's hard to resist during the holiday season, especially as pro and college football ramp up to their end-of-the-year commercial onslaught, a slick corporate stage show with billions of dollars at stake.
There is progress, too, in those parts of Europe where anti-austerity campaigns are increasingly pushing corporates centre-stage.
But perhaps in Apple's natural history, the design phase too has been replaced by a new stage of corporate evolution: the marketing stage.
To the chagrin of some Chicago fans and critics, the festival is drenched in corporate sponsorship, with stages named Budweiser, PlayStation, Sony and so on.
He has helped transform a staid, midsize corporate lender privatized in stages over the last decade into a market leader in Indian retail credit.
It's also true, however, that while the economy remains deeply depressed, corporate profits have staged a strong recovery.
On December 8th UK Uncut, a group which campaigns against government austerity and corporate tax avoidance, staged protests at dozens of British Starbucks stores.
