Word: ceos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Frederick "Fritz" Henderson will not have the luxury of a honeymoon phase. The new interim CEO of General Motors - whose predecessor, Rick Wagoner, resigned March 29 at the behest of the White House - inherits a company in disarray. Over the next 60 days, Henderson must engineering some kind of comeback for the sputtering carmaker, amid the glare of the media spotlight and mounting public outrage over disappearing auto jobs. (Read "Will Wagoner's Exit Put GM on the Road to Recovery...
...most ill-conceived pile of stupidity by the biggest bunch of cretins that I've ever seen in my life," says Ross Wheeler, CEO of Albury.net.au, a regional ISP, referring to the web-filtering plan. "Every ISP that I know of has either publicly or privately said it's technically and practically impossible." The leak was further black icing on the cake. Among the list's more than 1,000 entries were URLs for child porn, rape and bestiality sites as well as online gambling (some forms of which are illegal in Australia) and gay and straight pornography. But many...
...large companies, it is not really the job of the CEO to run the company. There are plenty of bright operational, financial, and legal executives. Business schools teach that CEOs are charged with looking at a company's future so that they can think strategically about how to position their firms for the world as it will be in five or ten years...
...obvious to most average people now that the control, and to some extent the creation of content, began moving rapidly to the Internet as long as eleven or twelve years ago. Not a single large print media company chief saw that at the time. The role of the content CEO as visionary did not work. Looking ahead in 1998, he saw the U.S. Postal System and his unionized workers as his greatest enemies. Now newspaper unions have almost no bargaining power to save their member's jobs because the entire industry is going under...
Ironically, what helped start the rally in mid March were upbeat words from Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit about Citigroup's profitable performance during the first two months of 2009. Friday's stock market swoon, traders say, was partly triggered by cautious comments from Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis and JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who both noted that March was proving to be a more difficult month than either January or February. As Dimon told Bloomberg TV while standing outside the White House after a group of bankers met with President Obama, "This downturn - it's pretty powerful...