AOL may show sole sovereign can be good rule
Last week, a Conference Board panel of business elders suggested that companies split the duties of the chief executive and chairman. On Tuesday, AOL-Time Warner rushed to name a new...
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Frankly, Case’s farewell defies mum manual
Steve Case quit his job as AOL-Time Warner's chairman in a way top executives rarely do: He was fairly frank about why he's leaving. Case admitted he doesn't particularly want...
A short-term mind-set yields long-term woes
We have seen enough corporate scandal in the past year to fill an encyclopedia. From Tyco to WorldCom to Enron to Andersen to Smith Barney to Merrill Lynch, there are...
Panel’s ideas carry weight law can’t match
The flurry of post-Enron corporate reforms has been broad and swift--if not always as deep as it should be. Congress has weighed in. The Securities and Exchange Commission. The New...
Missing butter may give states more heartburn
President Bush delivered a guns-and-butter speech Tuesday to the Economic Club of Chicago. The guns came as no surprise. Bush vowed to spend whatever it takes to wage war in...
Business brims with blunderers, plunderers in ’02
Pop quiz! It's said that truth can be stranger than fiction. This year, the news in business was stranger still. Separate the truth from the trash in our annual review...
For Wall Street, that $1.43 billion is small change
If that $1.43 billion settlement Wall Street firms agreed to last week sounds like a lot of money, then it's time for a little perspective. For starters, the headline number...
Coke on right path in move to shun guidance
It's a wired, interactive world. And in this fast-paced society, nobody wants to wait for anything. Nobody that is, except for Coca-Cola. The company that made its name delivering "a...
Fee flees; so score one for Bank One
The best things in life may be free. But there's often a fee for the mundane. The list of not-free-anymore items seems to grow by the day. The phone company...
Joint accounts can’t bridge family divides
If you want to know whom to blame in this whole Pritzker mess, the answer is pretty obvious: It's Nick's fault. Nick Pritzker, the immigrant from Kiev who founded the...