Strategy & Management

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Inc. November 1, 2002 Ilan Mochari	Consumer Reports For some CEOs the best management lessons come from their lives as customers.
Knowledge@Wharton	The Secret to Estee Lauder's Good Looks Savvy marketing and a global reach helped Estee Lauder grow spectacularly.
Knowledge@Wharton	Is It Time to Get Rid of EBITDA? The latest target of corporate reformers may not be a company or even an individual. Instead it is a concept, EBITDA, that may have been indirectly responsible for at least some of the corporate carcasses now littering the landscape.
CFO November 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland	Board Games Boards are supposed to monitor top executives, but too often give them carte blanche. That's why regulators are writing stricter rules for the corporate-governance game.
CFO November 1, 2002 Tim Reason	Align the Books? The gap between the numbers reported to shareholders and to the taxman is growing. Critics contend it's time to explain why.
CFO November 1, 2002 Alix Nyberg	Acquiring for Cash With IPOs out of the question, some venture capital-backed companies buy entities for their liquid assets.
CFO Joseph McCafferty	Laundry Time Prosecutors are applying money laundering laws to the recent crop of financial scandals.
CFO Alix Nyberg	Executive Indictments Prosecutors looking to pin corporate scandals on the top dog often press other executives for information that could prove a case against the CEO in exchange for leniency for the informers. Finance chiefs facing criminal sentencing have traditionally jumped at the offer.
CFO Kris Frieswick	Shareholder Management Odd-lot shareholder programs -- in which companies offer shareholders with fewer than 100 shares a chance to either sell them at discounted fees or buy enough to hit 100 -- are making a comeback.
CFO Alix Nyberg	Cost Cutting Despite the promise of a paperless society, companies are spending more on printed materials than ever before. And while many companies don't realize how much they spend on printing, those that do can find it difficult to trim.
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