Chief Executive (U.S.) articles from February 2002

Chief Executive (U.S.) archives from February 2002

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February 1, 2002... Travel Industry Wants Handout I found Marilyn Carlson Nelson's article, "A Little Hospitality, Please," (CE: January 2002) discouraging. It's not exactly true that September 11 played the key role in the decline of tourism. Airlines,...

The impatient CEO. (Editor's Note).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... John Brandt Everybody thinks that he or she should (or at least could) be a great CEO. Yet few of these pretenders are willing to cultivate the three character traits that great CEOs must have to get through turbulent times. These...

Brasil Telecom's cultural iconoclast: career path less traveled. (CEO Watch).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... You think you have cultural issues? Consider the career of Carla Cico, president and CEO of Brasil Telecom since February 2001. She's responsible for helping the $3.2 billion telecommunications company adapt to sweeping government-led...

Watchdog gets new master. (Arrivals).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... ON JAN. 1, Canadian-born Linda Crompton became president and CEO of The Investor Responsibility Research Center, or IRRC, an investor research group specializing in corporate social responsibility in Washington, D.C. She replaces 23-year...

Ford cleans house, again. (Departures).(Ford Motor co.)(Don Winkler)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... DON WINKLER, 53, RESIGNED on Dec. 14 from Ford Motor Co. He was a company group vice president and chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Credit, the automaker's lending division. His duties fall to Greg Smith, president and COO of Ford Motor Credit....

Capitol flight: Facing budget cuts, companies reconsider the value of Washington lobbying offices. (View from the Hill).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The high-tech boom was just reaching its peak when 3Com, a high-flying Internet net-working company in Santa Clara, Calif., hired Greg Garcia to head its new Washington office in February 1999. Two years later, Garcia was let go. Facing...

A time to micromanage. (Strategies of the Fittest).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Advertising agencies fell victim to the tech boom by allowing the euphoria of a client surplus to overshadow prudent client vetting, says Mark DiMassimo, CEO of DiMassimo Brand Advertising in New York. Now, spurred by the worst ad spend decline...

Escape to tuscany. (Members Only).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... CHIEFS IN NEED OF a little rest and renaissance can find a week of uninterrupted quiet time in Florence, Italy, on a retreat for corporate soul-searchers called A Tuscan Sabbatical. Professional therapists lead participants during fall or...

You're always a new CEO. (Career Advice).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... James M. Kilts is in his third tour of duty as a CEO. But the chairman and chief executive of Boston-based The Gillette Co. understands that to his management and to his employees, he's a newcomer. "A new chief executive needs to walk...

The director drought. (Survey Says!).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... NEW DIRECTOR APPOINTMENTS among S&P 500 boards have dropped 45 percent over the past three years, reports executive recruiting firm Spencer Stuart. The firm attributes the drought to increased demands on the time of would-be directions. ...

Latin America is not a country. (Chief Concern).
February 1, 2002... As told by CHARLES HERINGTON to C.J. Prince I have spent most of my professional career taking global brands into Latin American markets--first for Procter & Gamble, later for PepsiCo Restaurants, and then for Revlon. And my impression is...

Laying low. (Capitol Ideas).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The fall from grace of the best-connected executive in Washington's recent history, Enron's Kenneth Lay, should serve as a cautionary tale about the hazards of spreading corporate money around the nation's capital. Not only does cash pervert...

The real Bayer fallout. (Market Horizons).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Imagine the positioning opportunity: The United States, the world's largest consumer market, is grappling with an anthrax crisis and your company has the patent for Cipro, widely considered the most effective antibiotic to Light the disease....

Success express: They're getting younger all the time, but today's CEOs are fast-tracking their way to the top. (2002 Route to the Top).(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... Who Wants to be a CEO? Don't all answer at once. It's tougher than ever to be the top dog. Dreams hatched during the boom times of the late 1990s have been cut short by a plunging stock market and the ensuing recession. Today, CEOs are...

My first 100 days in office. (2002 Route to the Top).
February 1, 2002... No longer do newcomers to the corner office have time to warm up before hitting their stride. Chief executives are expected to deliver ASAP -- and the decisions made in the first 100 days in office are seen as crucial indicators of a company's...

Going Global: Conoco's Archie Dunham. (2002 Route to the Top).(international Chief Executive Officers)(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 1, 2002... Archie Dunham has gnawed raw reindeer in the Russian tundra and gone fishing in a downpour on the Black Sea. He says he feels as comfortable in Oman as in his home in Houston where he is the chairman and chief executive of Conoco (and will...

Why MBAs aren't everything. (2002 Route to the Top).(Hal Rosenbluth, Rosenbluth International Inc. on Masters of Business Administration)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... The evening before he was interviewed for Chief Executive, Hal Rosenbluth was having dinner with a senior executive of one of the country's largest investment banks. When the subject of this interview came up, the executive mentioned that he...

Call me Crazy: These three bravehearts took top jobs nobody in their right minds would want. Here's why they did it and how they're doing. (Careers).(Chief Executive Officers Paul Norris/Deborah Cafaro/Jay Valentine)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... All CEOs face challenges. But some companies, especially those on bankruptcy's brink, offer more daunting hurdles than others. Some executives tackle tough assignments because they cause they need the money. Others, like William Clay Ford...

Citizen Kraemer: How baxter international's chief Harry Kraemer learned to stop worrying and love sustainability. (Sustainability).(Harry M. Jansen Kramer Jr., Baxter International Inc. (Deerfield, Illinois))
February 1, 2002... On Nov. 13, 1998, a coalition of activist investors, led by advocacy group Healthcare Without Harm, filed a shareholder resolution with Baxter International, a provider of biomedical therapies and equipment with approximately $7.6 billion in...

Executive branch: The top job has grown so complex that CEOs practically need a presidential cabinet to stay informed and on their toes. (Management).(Chief Executive Officers/United States)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... What a difference a crisis makes. Before September 11, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta was strictly a behind-the-scenes player. But as a hijacked plane hurtled toward Washington, Mineta was hustled under guard to a secret bunker. There...

Dotshots: Where are they now? Riding high until the bubble burst, now they're proving there's life after dot-com death. (Technology).(Chief Executive Officers, electronic commerce)
February 1, 2002... Q: How do you get a dot-com CEO off your porch? A: Pay him for the pizza. It's a joke making the rounds of Silicon Valley and other digital dustbowls, but within it lies a slice of truth. In the topsy-turvy Net economy; where success...

Is the age of highly paid executives over? (Point/Counterpoint).(dialectic)
February 1, 2002... They deserve every penny. (Point) Dinesh D'souza Not long ago I was at a CEO conference and the topic of salaries came up. One after another, executives stood up to complain about criticism they had received for making too much money....

Donating after the destruction: CEOs revise their philanthropic agendas post 9/11. (CEOs & Society).(Chief Executive Officers/September 11th, 2001)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... A single thought sometimes gnawed at Clayton L. Mathile's conscience as chairman and CEO of the Iams Co., the Dayton, Ohio-based pet food manufacturer. "When I ran Iams, I had an issue with the fact that we were feeding dogs and cats better...

The Warren Buffet CEO: Secrets of the Berkshire Hathaway Managers. (Bookshelf).
February 1, 2002... By Robert P. Miles ROBERT MILES INTERVIEWED many of the managers of the 32 subsidiary companies fully owned by Warren Buffett's investment marvel Berkshire Hathaway over an eight-month period. The result is a roadmap for corporate best...

Toying with the competition. (Flip Side).(eToys Inc.)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... No company better illustrates the lunacy that briefly afflicted this nation than eToys. Once accorded a market cap of $8 billion, the online toy retailer went down in flames last March, filing for bankruptcy after losing hundreds of millions of...

E-sourcing: Information Technology on demand: Utility computing marks a new stage in the evolution of outsourcing, and may be the first to fully deliver on the strategy's true potential. (CEO Perspectives).
February 1, 2002... The business objective behind the concept of outsourcing has always been a fundamentally sound one: handing off responsibility for non-core functions to a third-party provider, thus freeing up capital and human resources that can be redirected...