Recently added articles from Chief Executive (U.S.):
Dept. of poverty creation.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
Jul 01, 2008; Donlon, B. ... Last, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, an independent research group, reissued a petition signed by 31,000 scientists asserting that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane were actually beneficial to the environment. The petition was created in 1998 by the late ...
New CEO, Old Team.(FEED BACK)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Smart, Brad ... In "New CEO, Old Team" (Chief Executive, April/May 2008) the authors said, "CEOs have had little guidance on how to judge whether to keep most of their inherited team, or look for new blood." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A simple but effective approach that has worked for ...
Moral hazard problem.(FEED BACK)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; Settineri, Frank ... The cliche, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander," like all other cliches, exists because it represents the culmination of the best practices discovered during the course of human interactions. In his article "Weathering the Sub-prime Crisis" (Chief Executive, ...
Skin deep.(CEO CHRONICLES)(Company overview)
Jul 01, 2008; Pellet, Jennifer ... Like all the other assets of his specialty pharmaceuticals company, Alfred Altomari, the newly appointed CEO of Princeton, N.J.-based Barrier Therapeutics, hails from Johnson & Johnson. But while most of those assets--namely patent licenses for dermatology products not deemed worthy of ...
Nascent Nigeria?
Jul 01, 2008 ... Can Nigeria, long plagued with political instability and corruption, become the next new frontier for global expansion? Tom Iseghohi, CEO of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc. (Transcorp), thinks so--and he's gambling his career on it. A Nigeria-born nationalized ...
Who you gonna call?(CEO WATCH)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Robert S. "Steve" Miller, 66, gained a reputation for fixing ailing companies, something that became an unanticipated career for the Oregon-born executive who worked at Ford and was recruited by Lee lacocca as part of the team that saved Chrysler from ruin in the late 1970s. Miller counts ...
CEO confidence continues to fall.(CEO CONFIDENCE INDEX)
Jul 01, 2008 ... AMID A 10 PERCENT DECLINE in the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the last 30 days, the CEO Confidence Index plunged 11.3 points this month according to 129 top executives polled by Chief Executive between June 13 and June 27. The leading economic indicator currently sits at 84.5, and has ...
Pandemic proposal: the government says the private sector should play a part in a flu strategy.(CHIEF CONCERN)
Jul 01, 2008; Abercrombie, George ... In its National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza, issued November 2005, the federal government cited the important role of the business community, noting that the private sector "should play an integral role in preparedness before a pandemic begins, and should be part of the national ...
Election education: what CEOs can learn from presidential elections.(UN COMMON WISDOM)
Jul 01, 2008; Kuhn, Robert Lawrence ... As we enter the high season of the quadrennial circus called the U.S. presidential election, and as I hear the positions and watch the behaviors of the major candidates, I am compelled to compare CEOs of countries with CEOs of companies. How are they similar? How do they differ? ...
Are you carbon beta rated? Here's a look at the likely winners and losers in the carbon rationing age.(REGULATION)
Jul 01, 2008; Bailey, Ronald ... American business executives are increasingly resigned to the fact that carbon controls are coming. Some 17 bills for cap-and-trade schemes to limit greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel energy sources are floating through the halls of Congress. Both Republican and Democratic Party ...
The anxiety advantage.(MANAGEMENT SKILLS)
Jul 01, 2008 ... For any chief executive, anxiety is a fact of life. To thrive in today's world, CEOs must achieve top-line growth, push innovation and creativity, align strategy with performance, and manage for value. They must build their leadership bench strength. They must think globally and plan for ...
What's your software worth? Most companies undervalue--and under-manage--their software assets.(INSIGHTS FROM INSEAD)(Company overview)
Jul 01, 2008; Dutta, Soumitra ... Executives today are faced with the difficult challenge of continually improving the business value of the unit or company they are managing. The challenge is daunting given the competitive environment faced by firms. Cost pressures are relentless. Oil prices are at record highs. New ...
Surviving the patent shakeup: proposed reforms aim to fix a broken system, but the changes may have unintended--and unwelcome--consequences.(LAW)
Jul 01, 2008; Sherman, Erik ... In 2004, casino gaming systems company Bally Technologies found itself being sued by a competitor named Shuffle Master, as well as International Game Technology, a giant in its industry. Bally had been trying to expand into the casino data management market, and both plaintiffs were trying ...
Lafley's law: if you want to win become a Game-Changer.(Company overview)
Jul 01, 2008; Donlon, J.P. ... The best way to drive growth and win competitively is to innovate. Simple, but hard to do consistently. In June 2000, A.G. Lafley received a call from former Procter & Gamble CEO John Pepper asking him if he was prepared to accept the CEO position at the company. Lafley was stunned; he had ...
Do intangibles matter? Ideas and servies may be the true coin of the 21st century.(ROUND TABLE)(Company overview)
Jul 01, 2008; Pellet, Jennifer ... In the new economy, value isn't where it once was. Solid, quantifiable assets like plants, equipment and inventory are now often far less indicative of a company's value than intangibles like ideas, relationships and expertise. For companies like Microsoft, Google and eBay, those "soft" ...
This is just not happening: bring on the futurists, curmudgeons and whack-jobs.(FLIP SIDE)
Jul 01, 2008; Queenan, Joe ... Newspaper readers instinctively turn to the same section every morning. For many it is the sports, for some the financial section, some actually start on page one with the bad news about the war, the stock market, Medicare. Not me. When I get my newspaper, the first thing I turn to is the ...