When Dead & Company came to Cornell in May for a benefit concert commemorating the Grateful Dead’s famed “Cornell ’77” show, it drew thousands to Barton Hall. The March announcement of the show was the most-viewed Chronicle story of 2023.
Edward H. Meyer, an empire-building CEO who, using an iron-willed management style and a laser focus on even the smallest details, transformed a midsize New York advertising agency into the global power known as Grey Group, died Tuesday at his apartment in Manhattan. He was 96.
Edward H. Meyer, seated, the longtime president of the Grey advertising agency, with Richard S. Lessler, the chairman, in 1968. Mr. Meyer became chairman two…