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Lila MacLellan

Inside a Fortune 500 CEO’s manic plan to escape the U.S. ‘death tax’: 'It’s not that I’m selfish for myself'

Photo illustration combining a photo of Harvey Schien holding a baby and a stock chart (Credit: Courtesy of Shadowbox Films Inc.)

Harvey Schein was once one of the most influential of globe-trotting Fortune 500 CEOs. 

Darting between New York and Tokyo in the 1970s, he ran the American arm of Sony, a brand that revolutionized consumer technology and helped kick off what became a new digital era. 

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