Chief Executive (U.S.)

To hear Richard Bock tell it perhaps biotech pioneer Genentech ought to hang it up. "They're old hat,"says Bock, a stockbroker for San Francisco-based Sutro Co. "I'd rather talk about newer companies with a chance to make it big."But Bock's observation...

If your spouse, child, or parent calls when you're at the office, do you take the call? How about a call from your child's school or nanny?I accept those calls. So does George Bush. And so does every other chief executive with whom I've compared notes....

When the sci-fi thriller Escape From New York hit movie theaters in 1981, its creators couldn't have known the title would capture the mood of the city s business climate a decade later. Recession has hit New York particularly hard: Nonagricultural employment...

There are those who say that it takes a different kind of CEO to run a company in a recession or, if you will, in a turnaround mode. The same CEO who is good at hiring people, building plants, buying companies, and launching new products can't suddenly...