Chief Executive (U.S.) articles from February 2000

Chief Executive (U.S.) archives from February 2000

www.fastcompany.com.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Fast Company offers a full collection of articles from the usually hefty print edition of the magazine. The focus is on the changing world of work and management, with recent articles on topics ranging from the impact of intangible assets on...

www.industryweek.com.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... IndustryWeek offers a dose of daily news and several weekly feature articles covering everything from streamlining the supply chain to involving customers in product development. You'll also find business-improvement resources in the Research &...

Top Ten Practices for E-Business Success.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Experience may be the best teacher, but in the race to find a profitable e-business model, most companies don't have time for educational mistakes. To boost firms up the learning curve, Alex Pentland, academic head of the M.I.T. Media Lab, led...

Finding and Keeping Talent in the Internet Age.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... TODAY'S FIERCE BATTLE FOR TALENT CAN MAKE OR BREAK COMPANIES AT EVERY LEVEL. WHILE BUSINESSES VIE FOR SMART STAFF TO PLAN AND MANAGE E-BUSINESS STRATEGIES, POWER HAS SHIFTED FROM EMPLOYER TO EMPLOYEE. EVEN THE LARGEST CORPORATIONS NEED TO START...

Through THE Looking Glass.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... WHAT'S UP IS DOWN IN THE NEW WORLD OF SHAREHOLDER VALUE. AN E-CONFERENCE PANEL OF EXPERTS EXPLAINED THE NEW RULES. ALICE IN WONDERLAND HAD NOTHING on today's chief executive. "We seem to be living in a through-the-looking-glass...

Michael Capellas.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... IT'S TRUE. THE INTERNET DOES, IN FACT, Change everything. It's already started. But it's nowhere close to what's going to happen. Your competitors will change. Your partners will change. Your benchmarks for success will change. We have...

ROUTE THE TOP.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... In this, our fifth annual Route to the Top feature, written by contributing authors at the executive search firm Spencer Stuart, CE takes a look at the stats of today's top dog, the rising popularity of foreign-born CEOs, the hot pursuit of...

THE NEW E-LEADERS.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... COMPANIES RANGING FROM FINANCIAL services firms to retailers have been racing to capitalize on the potential of the Internet. But not everyone thrives on Internet time, and it's not just any leader who can cope with the perpetu-ambiguity and...

CONNECTING WITH CUSTOMERS.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... EVERYONE'S SEEKING AN E-COMMERCE EDGE--and channel management may be one way of reinventing the rules of the game. When Michael Dell bypassed dealers in selling PCs directly to people, he could afford to sell more cheaply because he wasn't...

FORBES: SPEAKING FREELY.(Review)
February 1, 2000... A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM: VISION FOR AMERICA. BY STEVE FORBES. REGNERY PUBLISHING, $17.95, 204 PP. CAMPAIGN MANIFESTOS ARE USUALly Long on mushy high-minded sentiments and glittering policy generalities and short on real substance and...

ALL ROADS LEAD UP.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... What's that adage, all roads lead to Rome? For long-term investors in the stock market, the destination of their portfolio points to growth--and more growth--despite the dips and detours along the way. Many factors serve as road signs,...

EGGS OVER EASY.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The chattering classes recently worked themselves into a dither when an enterprising "fashion photographer" set up a Web site offering prospective parents a chance to purchase eggs "donated" by professional "models." The photographer, Ron...

CHIEF EXECUTIVE: Transitions.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... STEVE BALLMER, 43, WAS NAMED CHIEF executive of Redmond, WA-based MICROSOFT, a $19.75 billion software company. Ballmer, who will retain his previous title of president, succeeds cofounder Bill Gates, 44, who becomes chairman and chief software...

SHAKING OFF SHAKEDOWNS.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The day before the House of Representatives' October 7 vote on the so-called Patients' Bill of Rights, Congressman Dennis Hastert (R-IL) met lobbyists for Aetna, Blue Cross, Cigna, and other major health insurers at the Capitol Hill Club. The...

THE DIVIDEND COMEBACK.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... At first glance, dividends would appear to be diminishing in importance among U.S. corporations. Of 7,500 dividend-paying companies tracked by Standard & Poor's, 1,426 increased their dividends in the first 10 months of 1999, down from a peak...

STEERING INTO A NEW ERA.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... If his background as a professional wrestler can serve Gov. Jesse Ventura so well in the Minnesota statehouse, why aren't recruiters rushing to interview WWF alumni for positions in America's executive suites? Surely the time inside the ring...

FIT TO PRINT.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Bob Johnson describes himself as an "ENTP," shorthand for one of 16 personality profiles of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: an Extroverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiver. Myers-Briggs reflects Jungian teachings that human behavior is directed by...

NORWEGIAN WOULD.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Why in the world would I take this job?" A reasonable question, coming from a man who took the helm in late 1998 of a company mired in a quicksand of deficit and debt, its share price having plummeted to a fraction of what it had been the year...

[INFLECTION POINTS].(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... IF TERRY MCGRAW HAD THE GOOD LUCK OF BEING BORN into a family with its name on a $3.7 billion company, he discovered quickly enough the pitfalls of corporate primogeniture. Rapidly climbing the ranks in the late '80s McGraw shared the blame for...

Yankee Group.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... More proof That it's tough to be stuck in The middle: Close to half of middle market companies surveyed by the Yankee Group reported That their e-commerce efforts have been unsuccessful and They need Third-party help to turn Those efforts...

Jupiter Communications.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Local ad revenue, which today comprises 14 percent of online ad spending, or $466 million, will grow to 24 percent, or $2.7 billion, by 2003. That's according to a Jupiter Communications study, which points to growing overall ad budgets,...

SpeedStep technology.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... A cool code name is a sure sign of an innovative computer product. And Intel's SpeedStep technology for laptops, formerly code-named Geyserville, is not just innovative; it merges perfectly with the way people use their mobile computers....

Learning By Doing: One Company's Experience With XBT Technology.
February 1, 2000... As most CEOs know (and some have learned the hard way), yesterday's adage, "if it ain't (too) broke, don't fix it," hardly works in today's hypercompetitive environment. These days, if a CEO isn't seeing pretty outstanding performance using a...

Improvement(.com).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Business improvement means not only incremental gains in quality and productivity, but also the use of new business models, radical improvements in processes, and large-scale change across the enterprise. The ability to continually innovate--to...

THE TOP JOB.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... What makes a CEO? Is there a pattern in terms of age, background, education, and career path? Where are future CEOs coming from? In our fifth annual "Route to the Top" feature, p. 48, we depart from our usual approach of offering a single...

A BONE TO PICK.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... To the Editor: I have read your magazine and found it a helpful source of information to me as both an executive and director of companies. Consequently, I was shocked and disappointed with the recent best and worst boards article (CE:...

Glover Ferguson.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... I'M A COLD WAR BABY. I SPENT AFTERNOONS in grammar school in Washington, D.C., down in the basement sitting underneath the desks, with the alarms going off periodically. The national defense strategy in place at that point was called...

CROWD CONTROL: Branding on the Internet.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... BRAND IS KING ON THE INTERNET, PUNDITS INSIST. BUT CAN YOU BUILD A BREAK-OUT BRAND WHILE DROVES OF DOT-COMS ARE ALL VYING FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS' ATTENTION? WHOOPI GOLDBERG IS DOING IT. WILLIAM Shatner is, too. And don't forget Sophia Loren...

CEO YEARBOOK: CLASS OF '99.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... More than 150 CEOs were both student body and faculty during two intensive days of peer-to-peer learning. At panels, roundtables, and small working groups, CEOs spoke frankly about their successes and failures in the Internet space, proving...

BRAVE NEW WORLD: Traditional Companies on the Web.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... TRADITIONAL COMPANIES VENTURING ONTO THE WEB FACE A PERILOUS JOURNEY. BUT THE HOPE FOR NEW CUSTOMERS AND NEW REVENUES MAKES THE VOYAGE WORTH THE RISK. In the race to the Internet gold fields, start-ups have little to lose compared to...

Tom Siebel.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... IN THE EARLY PART OF THIS DECADE THERE were two distinct markets for technology relating to customer acquisition and retention. One was sales force automation, which was about customer identification, contact management, competitive...

Why the Middleman Still Wins.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... THE DEATH OF THE MIDDLEMAN has been greatly exaggerated. Not long ago, e-commerce trends seemed to spell the demise of traditional distributors. Instead, a revolution in the role of the distributor has made the middleman more important than...

CANACIO TURNED CEO SAVE COMPAQ?(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... TO HEAR MICHAEL CAPELLAS TELL IT, HE was as surprised by his appointment to the top seat at beleaguered Compaq as anyone else. For three months after the board's well-publicized ousting of Eckhard Pfeiffer, the search for a turnaround whiz had...

THE MONEY PIT: CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... THOUGH HE WAS ONCE tarred as a "Keating Five" Republican presidential hopeful John McCain is now running hard on a platform of cleaning up a campaign finance system all agree stinks worse than Washington's Blue Plains sewage treatment plant....

INTERNATIONAL CEOS ON THE RISE.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... THE DAWN OF THE MILLENNIUM IS USHERing in a true global marketplace for CEOs, with a record number of foreign CEOs running major companies in the U.S., the U.K., and several other countries around the world. In the U.S., CEOs originally from...

DOING THE RIGHT THINGS RIGHT.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... OUR RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS IN OUR book, Lessons From the Top, indicates that when leaders succeed in doing the "right" things, both personally and within their organizations, the traditional measures of success inevitably follow. Analyzing the...

THE FAMILY FACTOR.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... WHEN CARLY FIORINA WAS APpointed CEO of Hewlett-Packard, she commented that the glass ceiling for women was at long last shattered. And while we might not necessarily be completely there yet, we do see, over the next five years a modest, if not...

INTRAPRENEUR EXODUS.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... THE LIST GETS LONGER EVERY DAY: brian Swette, formerly of Pepsico; Joseph Galli, formerly of Black & Decker Corp.; Tom Harden, formerly of L.L. Bean; Meg Whitman, formerly of Hasbro. All these managers and executives have left traditional...

www.contextmag.com.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Context, which features articles from the print magazine, takes a strategic look at technology-driven change in business. Recent offerings include examinations of how retailer REI blends physical and online business, managing for speed to...

www.business2.com.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The mission of Business 2.0 is "to clarify and demystify business" in the new economy, and recent features in the magazine cover such varied topics as how business schools are gearing up for the future, the managing of Internet startups, and...

www.cio.com/forums/knowledge.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... CIO's Knowledge Management Research Center provides an up-to-date collection of relevant articles from several CIO publications. These stories look not only at the technology involved in knowledge management, but also at factors such as...

Pushing CEO Buttons.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... If you're like most owners of handheld computing devices, you like using the word "stylus" more than you like using the stylus pen itself--a gadget that, although small and convenient, has been known to cramp hands faster than you can say...

TEAM PLAYER.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... My cat is not a team player. She doesn't respond well to direction. She keeps irregular hours. She occasionally is insubordinate and is always insouciant. But she is a full-fledged member of the household and contributes a great deal of...

SORCERER'S APPRENTICE.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Cn January 1999, the world feared that Brazil might end up pulling all of Latin America, if not the entire world's financial markets, down along with it. The leading minds of Western and Southern finance went into overdrive to help Brazil....

CORRECTION.(Correction Notice)
February 1, 2000... In the Nov. 1999 issue of CE, a profile of Ernie Davenport of Eastman Chemical, erroneously states that Davenport was in the U.S. Navy from 1960-1967 and had experience in nuclear submarines.

U.S. computer systems.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... In this post-Y2K problem era, it's not just a date change that the government fears; it's the threat everyone from high school hackers to international terrorists poses to our information infrastructure. To defend U.S. computer systems,...

Forrester Research.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Hopefully, the streets will get a bit quieter as people use their cell phones for accessing Internet services rather than loudly chatting with friends and colleagues, By 2004, Forrester Research predicts, one-third of all Europeans-more than...

Microsoft.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Microsoft Reader, a new software application for PCs and handheld devices, aims to deliver an on-screen reading experience That approaches the quality of reading text on paper, But for those who avoid reading at all costs, Microsoft will...

Confederation of Indian Industry.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... "Our mantra is infotech," India's information technology minister told a recent conference in New Delhi organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry, a trade association. Observers expect That mantra to translate into exponential growth...

Apple.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Finally meeting the hopes and expectations of Apple's faithful followers, Steve Jobs dropped the "interim" from his title at the start of the year, becoming the permanent chief executive of the computer company. The announcement, made at The...

COURSE-HOPPING CAPPER.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Russ Meyer has been a longtime member of the Cypress Point Club in Pebble Beach, CA, but it wasn't until he played a round there last summer that he decided the 18th hole at that celebrated course was his favorite. And that's largely because of...

NOT BAVARIAN CREME PIE.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Some things just aren't as good as you imagine they're going to be, like Bavarian cream pie, or the perennially disappointing New Year's Eve. As I imagined our first CEO E-Conference, I tried to keep my expectations low. After all, who knew how...

CEO Sound Bytes.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... QUICK TALLY VOTING Each conference participant was armed with a remote voting device provided by Quick Tally Interactive Systems. As participants responded to survey questions, the Quick Tally system instantly tabulated their anonymous...

Fred Smith.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Chairman, President, and Chief Executive, FDX Corporation PERHAPS THE BEST WAY TO SUM UP OUR experience in growing from 186 packages a day in 1973 to a $17 billion dollar company in 1999 is to borrow a quote from that famous American...

Survival Profit in the E-Business World.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... FINDING AN E-BUSINESS MODEL THAT WORKS IS A MATTER OF SURVIVAL FOR AMERICAN COMPANIES TODAY. LEADING E-BUSINESS EXECUTIVES TACKLED THE ISSUE HEAD-ON AT THE OPENING DEBATE OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE MAGAZINE'S CEO E-CONFERENCE. "Many people in...