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...Muir, the CEO of Clover Fast Food Inc. and a 2000 college graduate of MIT, said that the truck began in September 2008 as a test-run for the menu Muir planned on using in his future restaurant. However, when he shut the truck down after the test-run period of a mere six weeks, Muir’s customers were so vocal in their disappointment that the truck re-opened in March 2009. The time in-between allowed Muir to reorganize for the overwhelming number of customers the truck receives...
Back to the Future Steve Jobs didn't invent the tablet computer. In the past 10 years, practically every serious PC company has shipped one. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, a man impervious to the lessons of history, arrived at the Consumer Electronics Show (the Comdex de nos jours) in January waving yet another Windows tablet, this one made by Hewlett-Packard. But nobody has ever gotten the marketplace to pay attention. The tablet computer is like a siren that calls seductively to computer engineers, only to wreck them fatally on the stony coast of our total lack of interest...
Industry analysts see the current gains as more than a flash in the pan. "We think there is a steady recovery under way. We expect it to continue," says Scott Painter, CEO of TrueCar.com, an online car-buying guide. That bullish view is supported by a new round of positive economic signals. While consumer confidence remains shaky, underlying economic indexes, such as freight-car loadings and oil-rig counts, show that the overall economic picture is improving. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...
...Ironically, Moynihan almost didn't stick around long enough at the bank to become its CEO. In late 2008, former CEO Ken Lewis reportedly considering firing Moynihan, who had joined the bank after its 2004 acquisition of FleetBoston Financial, after the executive turned down the post of head of the bank's card division. Lewis even had a press release drafted announcing Moynihan's departure. The bank's board of directors, however, convinced Lewis to keep Moynihan, who was made the bank's chief legal officer and then the head of its retail operations before becoming CEO...
Berwick is also the President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a nonprofit focused on increasing the quality of patient care throughout the world...