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...hyperdigital future in which HP would serve consumers and corporations at every stage. But the board ultimately concluded that Fiorina had one significant weakness as a chief executive: she just wasn't very good at running the business. That's a problem when you head an $80 billion behemoth with lackluster earnings that is beset on all sides by competitors like IBM, EMC and Dell. "Looking forward, we think the job is very reliant on hands-on execution, and we thought a new set of capabilities was called for," said Patricia Dunn, an HP director who became nonexecutive chairwoman...
...birdie for the Republicans: unified opposition that killed Democratic legislation, and Washington stalemate that killed the Democratic Congress. The lesson for today’s Democrats is clear: Unrelenting, unapologetic opposition is the only effective means of confronting, and ultimately defeating, the three-branch, fifty-state, multimedia right-wing behemoth that is America’s new governing party. And to the dangerously naïve among us—those who counsel “working with the president,” and hoist Tom Daschle’s political corpse as evidence of the perils...
...argument from deal enthusiasts: the merger will give the firms greater bargaining clout with big retail chains. "This is a response to the Wal-Martization of America," says Joseph Altobello, an analyst at CIBC World Markets. A similar case is made regarding advertising purchases--that together the brand-swollen behemoth will be able to wring more favorable terms for ads. Yet P&G and Gillette were megafirms separately. How much more leverage can they truly gain...
European airplane maker Airbus has unveiled the world's largest passenger plane, a double-decker behemoth that will seat up to 800 people. The A380 will make its first test flight this spring and begin flying passengers in 2006. But will U.S. airports be ready? No U.S. passenger airline has yet ordered the plane, but three airports--San Francisco's, Los Angeles' LAX and New York's John F. Kennedy--are gearing up for foreign airlines, such as Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines, that have. Some runways and taxiways have to be widened and terminals expanded for the extra passengers. Virgin...
...growth and ultracompetitive world of packaged foods, maintaining an empire can be just as difficult as building one. In 1999, Kellogg Co., the $9 billion behemoth that makes Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops--plus other consumables like Pop-Tarts, Nutri-Grain bars and Eggo waffles--lost its first-place cereal market share to rival General Mills. Carlos Gutierrez, who became CEO that year, led a massive revamp of the company that restored sales, morale and the No. 1 position. But in November, Gutierrez was poached to take over the Commerce Department, leaving board member Jim Jenness at the helm...