Chief Executive (U.S.) articles from April 2001

Chief Executive (U.S.) archives from April 2001

Here's to the New New Economy.(Editorial)
April 1, 2001... It's amazing how much the media -- especially the so-called new economy media -- can learn in a year. Just a year ago, of course, most of the readers of this magazine (and traditional journalists like me) were, in the eyes of the new...

last word.(the challenges of being a CEO)(Column)
April 1, 2001... This is my last editor's column for Chief Executive. After nearly 23 years with CE, I'm shifting career gears and will be helping CEOs with communications strategy as a principal with the Dilenschneider Group, a New York City consulting and...

Off with Their HEADS.COM.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... "UNEASY LIES the crown worn by today's CEOs," intones John Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The Chicago-based executive search firm reports dire evidence that loyalties are short-lived in the new economy. Since the firm...

Economic Union, ALRIGHT.(online markets )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... EUROPE'S B2B online markets currently account for only 1.5 percent of all European business, or $200 billion euros. That number will grow to 1.8 trillion euros by 2004, forecasts NYC-based Internet research firm Jupiter MMXI. Yet at the same...

CEOs Only, PLEASE.(CEOGO.COM )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... CEOGO.COM is a newly launched Web site created for the man or woman in the corner office. Here you'll find CEO-related news, research findings, and topics on CEO reputation, leadership, and management. Brought to you by Manhattan communications...

Hey, BIG SPENDER.(online shopping around the world)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... EVEN IN VIRTUAL malls, Americans out-shop the world. Only Japan's consumers will hold a candle to U.S. spenders in the near future, predicts Chicago-based international consumer market research firm Euromonitor. Euromonitor estimates that...

Try a Little Tenderness.(advisory boards for young CEOs)(Brief Article)(Column)
April 1, 2001... These days, papers are full of the demise of dot-com companies that were the IPO darlings of a year or two ago. Before the bubble burst, these companies seemed so lively, so bright, so new, and so exciting. So, it's worthwhile to ask ourselves,...

Should The U.S. Bury Fast Track?(trade policy)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... U.S. trade policy over the past 10 years has created plenty of cause for anxiety around the globe. The fight over NAFTA, the lost battle for fast track authority, and high-pro file anti-trade protests have called into question general support...

California Blaming.(electric utilities and deregulation)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... "Capitalism is falling apart," emotes the Los Angeles Times' left-wing columnist Robert Scheer, who references California's power problems as exhibit A. "The result [of deregulation] is now bordering on the catastrophic, with utility companies...

Wheel Dealer.(Autobytel.com)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... Just three weeks into his new job at Autobytel.com, the Irvine, CA-based online auto-purchase enterprise, Mark Lorimer experienced the overwhelming negativity surrounding the industry he'd become part of firsthand. At a chic dinner party in...

Bricks and Mortar on the Web.(Buzzsaw.com)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
April 1, 2001... Nobody feels the heat of an upstate New York summer more than a carpenter working on a home, and Carl Bass has spent plenty of hot, humid days hammering nails and sawing lumber around the college town of Ithaca. Originally from Brooklyn, Bass...

BROWNE BURNS THE MIDNIGHT OIL.(Sir John Browne, BP Amoco PLC)(Interview)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... BP Amoco's Sir John Browne is working overtime to get you to think differently about oil companies--particularly his own. Most analysts seem to agree that, no matter what your expertise, trying to predict the erratic price of oil is pretty...

Davos DISTEMPER.(meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland)
April 1, 2001... If the prospect of a slowdown wasn't sobering enough, this year the business elite attending the great Alpine event had to go toe-to-toe-with the anti-globalization elite--with no clear winner in sight. "Switzerland is not a banana...

Europe's TURN.(discussions at World Economic Forum regarding European economy)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... While radical transformation has the Euro-Zone leaping ahead after years of stagnation, bureaucratic red tape still impedes emerging enterprises. Can Europe cut through the maze left in Socialism's wake? "Europe is back," French finance...

What does THE FUTURE HOLD?(global economic forecasts)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... Predicting the future is no easy feat. Healthy growth or poverty and instability ahead? How about a mixture of the two? To offer a peek at what's on the horizon, this briefing takes stock of political and economic events around the globe and...

Two of a KIND.(sibling chief executive officers)
April 1, 2001... Sibling CEOs say the source of their business acumen lies somewhere between nature and nurture. While preparing for his college graduation back in the '70s, Ron DeFeo, now chairman and CEO of Terex, interviewed for a job at Proctor &...

Ensuring Social Security.(panel discusses potential privatization of United States Social Security system)
April 1, 2001... Mired in a pay-as-you-go system that's nearing implosion, the U.S. system sorely needs reform. Will the privatization plan that's worked so well for countries like Chile, Australia, and Great Britain fly here? The U.S. Social Security...

The Well-Worn Path To Success.(Review)
April 1, 2001... I haven't kept an exact count, but this is about the 100th book I've read on leadership. That's not enough to make me an expert, but it does allow me to say, "Been there, done that." This 100th leadership book is by James Champy of...

Standing Tall (and Better Dressed).(office dress codes and custom of "Casual Fridays")(Brief Article)(Editorial)
April 1, 2001... Five years ago, Chief Executive took a bold, principled stand against a trend threatening to destroy the fabric of our society. The trend, though seemingly innocuous at the time, struck at the very heart of what we as a people hold dear....

transitions.(appointments of chief executive officers)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... John H. Dasburg, 58, has resigned as CEO of Egan, MN- based Northwest Airlines to become chairman, CEO, and president of Burger King Corp., a Miami-based subsidiary of Diageo plc, effective April 1. Northwest's current executive vice president...

The Bonnie Links of Scotland.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Marguerite Sallee, 54, lives in Nashville and plays most of her golf at the Golf Club of Tennessee. "It gives you the best of the state," enthuses the 19-handicap per, who heads Nashville, TN-based Frontline Group, the training, consulting, and...

E-DAY.(electronic commerce)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... DESPITE PAST LOSSES, CEOS SAY THE NET IS A BATTLE THEY CAN WIN B2C cut down in its first wild foray, and still e-commerce continues its inexorable forward march. This time, it's the old-line companies, titans armed with business-to-business...

Transformation from the Core.(General Electric Co.'s embrace of electronic commerce)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... "Return of the Titans: Traditional Companies Storm the Web" refers to how companies such as General Electric, with established brands, customer bases and fulfillment infrastructure, are asserting themselves in the e-marketplace. We have...

E or Be Eaten.(Oracle Corp. embraces electronic commerce)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... At a recent briefing on how the Internet changes business, a gentleman asked, "What's the difference between the Internet and e-business?" I thought, What a dumb question. But it's actually not, because they are different. The two are linked,...

The Paper Trail.(New York Times Digital; management and profit making)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Almost every major newspaper in the nation has an online version, but for New York Times Digital, the challenge was to earn profits, respect -- and to let it stand on its own. Drivers: Martin Nisenholtz, founder and CEO of New York Times...

Internet RX.(Merck-Medco Managed Care L.L.C.'s electronic commerce strategy)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... At New Jersey-based Merck-Medco, the move to e-business was inspired by a desire to improve efficiency in bringing products and services to market, and to develop better relationships with its clients and customers. But fear had something to do...

SLEEPING with the ENEMY.(electronic commerce business partners)
April 1, 2001... In B2B, e-communities can make for strange -- though not entirely unpleasant -- bedfellows If you're the chief executive of a manufacturing company, the business-to-business e-community -- like it or not -- is your new bedfellow. That...

Forging A Customers-to-Business World.(electronic commerce)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Business -to-business e-commerce is not evelutionary in nature. This is a revolution. It's going to completely change how we all do business -- from the ground up, not just within the four walls of an organization, but throughout the entire...

Ubiquitous Commerce.(use of wireless communication devices)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The transformation from the industrial to the digital economy is complex as we try to figure out what's happening and what top executives should take out of it. Technology has a tendency in the early stages to slow on a performance curve, and...

Quashing Cyber Mayhem.(security issues)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2001... Once upon a time there were three little pigs... and, well, you know the rest. The first pig built a house of straw, the second a house of sticks and the third a house of bricks. As you incorporate the Internet and other communication...

Knowing You, Knowing Me.(marketing on the Internet)(Panel Discussion)
April 1, 2001... Use the Net to learn about your customers, and you might learn something about your company, too. There's an old marketing adage about return on investment: You know you're wasting half your money, you just don't know which half. Old,...