Chief Executive (U.S.)

Though Latin America is reeling in the wake of the Mexican debt crisis, the political situation provides cause for optimism. In democratic elections, countries have voiced support for moderate leadership and opted to continue the economic remodeling...

You may be forgiven a yawn as you read of yet another "strategic alliance." Particularly in the information technology industry, players seem to be constantly embarking on such moves--often banding together in groups of three or more, sometimes in areas...

Stephanie Ertel recently called a document production firm for an estimate on researching, identifying, labeling, and copying legal documents. The answer: 600 man-hours at $20 an hour. "That's ridiculous," thought Ertel, senior vice president and general...

"To avoid the excessive a cost of prolonged litigation, we decided to settle the suit." We hear this announcement more and more these days. Cash a settlements in class-action shareholder suits increased to more than $1.4 billion in 1993 from $529 million...

Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the growing global economy is its overcapacity. This is particularly true in the European marketplace. The balance of power has tipped from the producer to the consumer, and the rules of the game have been fundamentally...

Teenagers working the morning shift at the Hardee's restaurant on Kennedy Street in Spartanburg, SC, by now are used to the sight of pin-striped Jerome J. Richardson, chairman of $2.6 billion Flagstar Corp., laboring along with them among the fast-food...

A pilot named Edward Cleveland and the company he worked for had a record of unsafe flying when they were hired to film a TV commercial. Cleveland replaced the front seat of his Piper Super Cub with a rear-facing camera. The cameraman squeezed behind...

Michael Egan fell in love with the travel business watching tourists come and go at Storyland, his parents' amusement theme park in Wisconsin, where he worked as a teenager some 40 years ago. But it wasn't until 1973, when a friend asked him to run the...

Your business won't succeed in the coming knowledge economy, unless you begin to prepare now. Chances are, your company is organized to excel as an industrial-or service-economy business, but that's going to have to change. It's time to get your organization...

If new legal mechanisms to extort and extract money can be called products, then the U.S. leads the world in product innovation. In addition to the now-familiar product-liability suit, creative trial lawyers have diversified their product line with class-action...

Most management thinkers profess to have, if not the right answers, the right questions. Charles Handy, for many years a senior fellow at the London Business School, is an unlikely management guru. He disclaims having the right answers and is somewhat...

In the two decades of CE's existence, two of the most earth-shaking developments have been the emergence of junk bonds as a corporate takeover mechanism and the rise of personal computers. Yet had the magazine asked a panel of experts 100 issues ago...