Christie Hefner is famous for being the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Playboy magazine of which the worldwide edition sale exceeds 9 million copies on monthly basis.

With her association with Playboy in the initial days, she was not planning to be there for a long time, but interest in the business environment has taken over her.She sticks to it for the longer period and became the CEO of the magazine, widely read around the world by the men's of all age and races.

She realized it that she has it all which is being required to run a business successfully and girth to face the bankers and institutional investors who are interested in investing in the magazine.



Any reference of Playboy without mentioning the person who has started the magazine is like hiding the relevant portion of history of Playboy and Christie. How Christie is attached to the "Hugh Marston", the creator is Playboy of is not surprising, as she is the daughter of this equally famed personality.

Hugh was the average student with very genius IQ (152). He distinguished himself with his extracurricular activities, founding a school paper, writing, cartooning and serving as president of the student council, where he championed student causes.

Hugh was a dreamer and obsession for starting his own magazine reached its pinnacle in January 1953, for which he found a printer and a distributor. He got his friends and family to invest in the venture, raising just $8000, including $600 of his own money borrowed from a bank using his family's furniture as collateral. The first issue came up in December 1953, and it carried no cover date because Hefner was not sure when or if he would be able to produce another. But the first issue sold more than 50,000 copies, enough to pay for the paper and printing costs and to finance another issue. And rest is all is known to you that's the success of the Playboy magazine.

In June Hugh married a classmate, Mildred Williams. Their marriage lasted for 10 years and Christie was born in 8th November, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois. Christie has brother named David who was born in 1955. When Christie was two her parents were separated. She was moved to Wilmette, Illinois with her brother, when her mother remarried. There she grew up in the suburbs and graduated from New Trier High School. Though she was genius in Math she completed her major in English from Brandeis University. She completed Bachelors of Arts degree in English and American literature in 1974 and became a president in her alma mater in 1978.


She applied for the Advanced Management Program in Harvard Business School but her application was turned downed on the pretext that she was too young.

Though, in later part of her career she got the chance to lecture in the Harvard Business School. Christie was planning to do pursue journalism or law but direction of her life steered to the door step of the Playboy and she started working with it as an intermediate stepWithin 5 years she was moved to the position of Vice President.

In year 1988 Christie Hefner became the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for the Playboy Enterprises Inc. In honour of her father she created the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award.



She has been the inspiration to the television and in the television situation comedy "Just Shoot Me", the portrayal of the character by Laura San Giacomo is allegedly is on the life of the Christie Hefner and why not TV ape the life history of this famous personality who has been so successful and everybody wants to see the trivia of the celebrities.

Though her childhood days were just like a normal girl and she had not much opulence in-spite of her father being a big figure. Christie's mother had this faith that she has the caliber to run a big organization.

She married William A Marovitx, a real estate developer and attorney and former state senator of Illinois in 1995. She got attracted towards William for his distinguished career in the Legislature. She was equally impressed by his great business instincts and exceedingly well making investment decisions in ventures such as real estate and stocks. Being a business woman it is but natural for her to get attracted toward the intelligence of a man.

Christie has been emotionally very much attached to her mother and her grand mother (father's mother). Most of the moral value she has got in legacy from them. She is the one who has been exuding with confidence thanks to these two ladies in her life. She is gift giver and loves to work in the company of woman's and it make it limpid why 80 percent of the workforce in the Playboy is feminist? However, she does not aver to work with the males at the same time. Because the Playboy has been targeted towards men's

Topics of nudity and sex have become the very important part of her life with the beginning of her job in the Playboy and while working with it she don't want to draw any line to hide any inner feeling about the liking of the men. She allows people to be themselves and this gives them opportunities to show offensive part and enjoy working environments. This gives them power to change things and turns it better then they had realized it to be happened.

Right from beginning she has been investing in the stocks and she felt sorry for people who sell there stocks to pay the taxes. Christie has been touchy about this issue as whatever extra she earned she used to purchase the stocks from it. She shared this information that most of the stocks which she has been holding has been earned by the stock option plan. As a child she never shown any inclination for saving the money and she has become just opposite of it in her twenties. For earning her own money she has worked as the baby sitter or wrapped Christmas gift in a departmental store. She doesn't believe that her father's money is hers.

She is a great thinker and has her opinions on the leadership skills for both sexes. She believes that both sexes has there styles of leadership and a success business tycoon try to assimilate qualities of both the sexes so that organization reaches the zenith in the road of success. As per her own analysis the organization can be ruined by the consensual management, and one can debilitate an organization and the best people working for it by being autocratic and dictatorial. Therefore, being an entrepreneur the passion for taking the calculated and creative risks and thinking outside the closed window is one of the most important characteristics. See All articles From Author Tags:

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