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Fast Company September 2004 Scott Kirsner |
One Tough Assignment When CEO Ed Breen took over at Tyco, he fired the very board that had hired him. And that was just the start.  |
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Enron's Kenneth Lay: The Last Road Not Taken Ken Lay could have taken specific action that would have prevented bankruptcy and saved the jobs of thousands of Enron employees. This article compares Lay's choices with those facing Salomon chief executive John Gutfreund a decade earlier...  |
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Family Matters: Are Fords, Hewletts and Packards Right to Exercise Their Clout? Are these founding-family members being too intrusive, wrecking the well-laid plans of professional managers and meddling in affairs that are none of their business?  |
The Motley Fool November 15, 2006 Anders Bylund |
Tyco Takes the Stage Global services and manufacturing conglomerate just reported a strong quarter and fiscal year, and it appears to be moving confidently beyond its past troubles. Investors, take note.  |
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Enron's Board Gives Black Eye to Efforts Aimed at Improving Corporate Governance By not keeping Enron from barreling down the wrong track to a rendezvous with catastrophe, the board has given a black eye to efforts by other American firms to improve corporate governance in recent years...  |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2001 John S. McClenahen |
Endangered! Unless manufacturing's CEOs perform very well and very fast, they're history...  |
CFO December 1, 2010 Roy Harris |
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Knowledge@Wharton December 18, 2002 |
Re-Examining the Role of the Chairman of the Board Faculty members at Wharton and a board member of a major U.S. corporation say that while there are some circumstances in which a division of authority between a chairman and a CEO may make sense, it is by no means a surefire way to keep companies on the straight and narrow.  |
Knowledge@Wharton July 2, 2003 |
Another Reorganization? What to Expect, What to Avoid Problems arise when reorganizations are undertaken for the wrong reason, are poorly implemented or fail to understand particular constraints of either the company or the market in which it operates.  |
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The Best Defense In today's high-stakes legal environment, top white-collar attorneys are ready to defend the CFO.  |
Fast Company December 2003 Jennifer Reingold |
Make the Buck, Then Pass It We attend the opening arguments in the cases of Frank Quattrone and Dennis Kozlowski, and learn that, hey, these kingpins were merely powerless cogs (just like us).  |
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Becoming the Best What you can learn from the 25 most influential leaders of our times (as chosen by Wharton faculty and the Nightly Business Report)  |