Word: behemoths
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...gate workers, ticket agents and mechanics, will be laid off as USAirways continues a cost-cutting reorganization of its hub system by routing more flights through Philadelphia. The moves are an attempt to continue the remaking of US Airways into the giant it once was and not the bloated behemoth that did not have a profitable year between 1988 and 1995. Since Stephen M. Wolf was elected chairman in early 1996, however, USAirways has been on something of a warpath. One of Wolf's first moves was to order up to 400 new Airbus jets, one of the largest orders...
...Novell has a big geek of its own. Sun Microsystems' house genius, Eric Schmidt, 41, is going to head up the struggling company. Schmidt is credited with helping build Sun (1996 sales: $7 billion) into a hardware behemoth. Soft-spoken and given to windy though usually hysterical jokes, he has a long trail of success: millions in the bank, oodles of patents, the respect of the industry. Why jump to Novell? Friends say there's only one other thing he wants: Bill Gates' scalp...
...former Soviet Union, a Western pioneer in India and an aggressive player in East Asia and Latin America. For three years running it was voted "Europe's most respected company" in a poll of executives by the Financial Times newspaper. The structure Barnevik devised to run this globe-girdling behemoth "has become a new prototype for the post-industrial-age corporation," says Manfred Kets de Vries of the INSEAD business school outside Paris...
...country as avowedly macho as Brazil, can a soft-spoken female executive pull such an unwieldy behemoth together? If anyone can, it is probably Marques. Brazil's Finance Minister, Pedro Malan, calls her a "force of nature." A legendary workaholic, she stayed at her CSN desk right up to the day before her first children--twins--were born last October. "The doctor told me if I didn't stop working, I'd have had to leave [the office] in an ambulance," she recalls. Feeling that the standard four-month maternity leave was excessive, Marques was back at her desk exactly...
While American Airlines is still having troubles negotiating with its pilots' union, we are pleased that our own corporate behemoth, Harvard, has solved its troubles with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). Just when the union members picketing outside Mass. Hall were getting warmer weather and more tourists to witness their discontent with the University, HUCTW has ratified a joint HUCTW-University agreement...