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

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

Are You Tough Enough?(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... The search for scale, like the search for the holy grail, is a neverending quest. Just when we thought that merger combinations couldn't be any bigger, along comes a deal like AOL'S takeover of Time Warner. How big is big enough? Apparently not...

Letters.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... THE HAVOC-WREAKING INTERNET To the Editor: John Graham is to be commended for his insightful essay on how the Internet is playing havoc with every business (CE: Dec. 1999). As he astutely observes, transformation of transactions...

Yankee Group.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... As more people get used to high-speed Web access at work, they're less willing to settle for a slow connection at home. Accordingly, the Yankee Group expects the number of U.S. residential subscribers to high-speed Net access services to grow...

Details from Davos.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... At the recent meeting at the World Economic Forum, Nortel Networks and International Data Corp. released a study projecting that the Internet infrastructure segment of the Internet economy will more than quadruple to reach $1.5 trillion by...

Forrester Research report.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... We've seen the hype about online investing in the U.S., but a recent Forrester Research report sheds some lighten its impact overseas: Europe's on-line brokerage accounts are expected to reach 14 million by 2004, up from 1.3 million today. The...

Beyond Bells & Whistles: Helping CEOs Out.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... An interview with Karen Saunders, Partner in the Assurance Practice at KPMG. When CEOs were asked, as part of a KPMG-Computerworld survey a little over a year ago, where they thought executive control over IT would ideally reside in the...

Keeping Your People.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... It's never been so hard to hang on to top talent. And as shared knowledge, innovation, and customer service become key competitive differentiators, your ability to attract, retain, and motivate employees is that much more critical. The Web...

Fire the CEO!(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... In professional sports these days, whenever a football, basketball, or baseball team has a bad season, the owners fire the guy in charge. Last year, it was a quick goodbye to coaches and managers like Ray Rhodes of the Philadelphia Eagles and...

Ford Credit's Wild E-Ride.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Ford Motor Credit Co., the $20 billion finance subsidiary of Ford Motor Co., surprised the business world-and in some regards, itself-early in the new year, when it successfully concluded the first ever corporate debt offering on the Internet....

Rupiah Politics.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... It may lose something in translation, but Indonesian politics--not normally a rich source of humor--has finally spawned its first joke. No matter which of the country's 141 warring parties a politician belongs to, goes the gag, he or she will...

AOL's Access Saga.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... A mid the jubilation of the announced AOL buyout of Time Warner, one group wasn't celebrating: AOL's allies in its fight to force AT&T to provide open access to its newly acquired cable empire. "We think it sucks," James Love, director of...

Crushing the Copper Mile.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... These days, it's not so unusual for the heir-apparent of a Fortune 100 company to jump ship to steer a start-up. But Alex Mandl, who left the post of president at AT&T to lead telecommunications company Teligent as president and CEO, was part...

Le Conglomerateur Formidable.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Macy's buys Tiffany. At first sight, the purchase of a controlling stake in Italy's Gucci by France's Pianult-Printemps-Redoute certainly looks this way, because Gucci is one of the world's leading purveyors of high-priced luxury goods, and...

BONSIGNORE'S BID FOR THE BIG TIME.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Still digesting the merger with AlliedSignal, Honeywell's Michael Bonsignore must convince skeptical investors that the combined company can deliver on its growth and productivity targets. Now for the hard part: He's set his sights on elevating...

THE NEXT GE.
March 1, 2000... What becomes of the house that Jack built? This month next year, the icon of Late 20th century business Leadership retires after 20 years -- roughly two normal CEO tenures -- as General Electric's CEO. The question everybody is asking is,...

What's in a Reputation?(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Elusive, yet essential to a company's business success, a good reputation is hard to come by and--judging from the results of Chief Executive's second annual corporate reputation survey--even harder to keep. A company's good reputation is...

Leadership Challenges for Third Millennium.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Is the Internet redefining business any more dramatically than the invention of the steam engine did? One thing is clear--large-scale change requires large-scale leadership. But what's the right leadership model for thriving in today's...

Boardrooms, Training Facilities and Presentation Centers.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Window on the World Imagine that the CEO of a major corporation has just called a meeting to order, and one of the board members makes a motion to discuss a proposed acquisition. The CEO leans forward, and presses a button on a small touch...

Weighty Wisdom.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Wisdom of the CEO--29 Leaders Tackle Today's Most Pressing Challenges. By William Dauphinais Grady Means, and Colin Price of PricewaterhouseCoopers. John Wiley & Sons. 384 pp. This book is a Herculean effort by a team of...

Transitions.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... G Richard Wagoner, 47, was named chief executive, effective June 1, of Detroit-based General Motors Corp., a $176.6 billion automobile manufacturer. Wagoner, who has served as GM's president since October 1998, will succeed Jack Smith, 62, who...

Alice's Course.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Mention Alice Cooper, and the first image that comes to most people's minds is of an outrageous rock 'n roller who has put out 26 albums in a career that spans three decades. Known for his wild attire and off-the-wall concert acts, he would...

Those Pesky Earnings.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... In the past two years, venerable corporations with real products, real revenues and real profits have repeatedly seen their stock prices massacred, either because they failed to meet quarterly earnings projections or because they were thought...