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

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

Brand Blow Out.(brand management)
July 1, 2001... What is a brand? More importantly, who owns a brand? A company? Its customers? Or someone else altogether? These are questions that more and more CEOs are asking themselves, as single missteps place brands--and the companies that rely upon...

Factory Orders Indicate SPEEDY TECH RECOVERY.(semiconductor industry outlook)(chief information officers)(computer crime)(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... WHAT DO COPIERS and cars have in common? Chip techology. It powers everybody's business from Xerox to Infiniti. So when a wired economy short-circuits, CEOs should know it's only a matter of time before tech Investment resumes, according to...

Better Boards by Review.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Way back in 1994, a Blue Ribbon Committee of the National Association of Corporate Directors urged the boards of all public companies to establish a formal system for annually reviewing the performance of their CEOs, the boards themselves and,...

A Taxing Matter.(enormity of proposed tax cut)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... It appears that President Bush and the U.S. Congress have agreed to cut taxes by $1.35 trillion over 10 years. But beyond the inside-the-beltway haggle over the specifics of the tax cut package, one question looms large: Just how much money is...

Jesse Jackson's Corporate Cash Cow.(charitable donations)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Corporate America has kept hope alive for Jesse Jackson. The Windy City preacher has solicited major companies to support the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and five other nonprofits he heads. CEOs have obliged--and how. According to a new study by...

The Driver Behind Dana.
July 1, 2001... Now here's a first step up the corporate ladder few career counselors would advise: turn down the company's job offer, not once but twice. That's precisely how Joe Magliochetti began his climb to the CEO suite at Dana Corporation three...

Champion of Breakfast Foods.(Steve Sanger, CEO of General Mills)(Interview)
July 1, 2001... Steve Sanger still gets choked up sometimes when he tells the tale of a nine-month-old baby who refused to eat and was being kept alive intravenously. One day the boy's uncle placed a single Cheerio on the infant's plate. When he checked a few...

Dunn Deals.(Barclays Global Investors global chief executive Patricia Dunn)(Interview)
July 1, 2001... Patricia "Pattie" Dunn sits quietly at her computer, oblivious to the stunning San Francisco Bay view dominating her office at Barclays Global Investors (BGI), an affiliate of London-based Barclays Bank PLC. "Quiet Giant" BGI has $800 billion...

Who's Afraid of Michael Dell?(Dell Computer Corp. CEO)(Interview)
July 1, 2001... In 1984, a 17-year-old freshman dropped out of college to build a startup biz -- and turned PC retail upside down. Seventeen years later he's still surprising us. Nothing about Michael Dell so much as whispers tough. Soft-spoken and...

NCR: BACK FROM THE BRINK.(Lars Nyberg CEO of NCR Corp.)(Interview)
July 1, 2001... Lars Nyberg seemed to do the impossible when he revived NCR. But can he convince the world the company's not just for cash registers anymore? Taking a company from hemorrhaging to health is no mean feat, but corporate doctor Lars Nyberg...

The Customer In Jeopardy.(managing customer relations)
July 1, 2001... The basic business mantra is get the customer and keep the customer. But how do you manage customer relationships and still keep an eye on the bottom line? An incredible amount of choice is available to people today. Nine thousand mutual...

Executive Mercenaries.(interim chief executive officers)
July 1, 2001... INTERIM CEOS are often a company's last resort. Meet the ultimate temp. Don Bibeault is not your typical executive. By doing his job properly he's received death threats. Once, an employee barged into his office with so much vitriol,...

Brand Rules!(brand management)(Excerpt)
July 1, 2001... Excerpted from Brand Warfare: 10 Rules for Building the Killer Brand Twenty or 30 years ago big brands ruled business: CBS, NBC, and ABC controlled television; Sears dominated retailing to the middle class. AT&T owned telecom, and the U.S....

JackDaniel's and the Etiquette of Corporate Gift Giving.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Close your eyes and imagine getting the perfect gift at the office: something new, but with a rich past. Something thoughtful, but not overly personal either. A gift that is tasteful, perhaps even tasty In all, a token of corporate friendship...

Leveraging Your Hidden Brainpower.(knowledge management)(Panel Discussion)
July 1, 2001... Harness your company's knowledge before it walks out the door -- and takes your business with it. As companies have searched for new business models, raced to enter new markets, and pushed to develop innovative products, knowledge...

Running the Numbers.(distributed computing)(Brief Article)(Column)
July 1, 2001... These days, scientists are very excited about the growth of distributed computing, a technology that makes use of the idle processing power of thousands of PCs around the world to complete massive tasks that would take years to perform on a...

The Accidental CEO.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Rebel with a Cause: The Entrepreneur Who Created the University of Phoenix and the For-Profit Revolution in Higher Education By John Sperling John Wiley & Sons. 255 pp. Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, is as good a time...

Transitions.(appointments and resignations)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Jack A. Shaw, 62, was named CEO of Hughes Electronics, a digital television and broadband communications unit of General Motors based in El Segundo, CA. He succeeds Mike Smith, 57, who retired as chairman and CEO in May following GM's decision...

California Golfing.(Sir Richard George of Weetabix Ltd's favorite golf course)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Sir Richard George has to travel a long distance from his home in the United Kingdom to play his favorite golf hole. He must go all the way to Southern California and the desert town of Rancho Mirage. That's where the Mission Hills Country Club...

Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management.(Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu's James E. Copeland, Jr. discusses intellectual capital)(Interview)
July 1, 2001... Q&A James E. Copeland, Jr., chief executive officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, explains how defining your company's culture is a key step toward developing intellectual capital. How leaders can leverage their human assets. * Why is...

Taking Stock of What You Know.(intellectual capital)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... What is the value of your organization's intellectual capital? When the startling news broke in January 2000 that Time Warner and America Online were merging, one of network television's principal financial analysts initially reported that...

Harvesting Your Human Capital.(knowledge management)
July 1, 2001... Managing knowledge starts with the people who create and use it. Our intellectual capital walks out the door every night, so the key is to make sure they come back," says Aart de Geus, CEO of Synopsys, Inc., a Silicon Valley provider of...

Sharing The Intellectual Wealth.(knowledge management)
July 1, 2001... It's one thing to possess knowledge, another to spread it around. Back in the early 1990s, Buckman Laboratories set itself up as a sort of experimental station in the then fledgling field of knowledge management. The CEO at the time,...

Speaking the Language of Business.(knowledge management)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Exchanging knowledge across many borders means recognizing a world of difference. "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." Like young Dorothy Gale -- and her little dog, too -- who was blown to a distant place where the...

Think Globally, Inform Locally.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The paperweight on Karen Katen's desk in New York City reads, "Who else needs to know?" The query is emblematic of her philosophy that knowledge is Pfizer's greatest asset. "The pharmaceutical business is absolutely grounded in...

Creating a Culture of Belonging.(Deloitte Consulting's Shane Tedjarati discusses knowledge management)(Brief Article)(Interview)
July 1, 2001... Q&A Shane Tedjarati, Deloitte Consulting's Regional Managing Partner for China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, explains the firm's unique knowledge management challenge within its globalization strategy. * What is your general approach to the use...

One for the Team.(Jerry Epstein)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Jerry Epstein believes firmly in the team concept, appreciating the unique knowledge and skills each individual brings to the success of an organization. He even reinforced his all-pulling-for-one philosophy -- as well as a few boyhood dreams...

LETTERS.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2001... Back to Media School Hallelujah! It's about time someone wrote an article telling CEOs to wise up and prepare for dealings with the media ("Business Smart, Media Dumb," CE: May 2001). Coaching CEOs on dealing with the media not only...