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Taken at face value, the Billionaires for Bush certainly seem to fit in with those booing yesterday’s nomination of Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., from afar. Ask any of them about recent trends in domestic and foreign policy and they will coo rapturous praise for the White House’s current occupant. And his opponent...
...weigh more than the tax rate when deciding where to set up shop. According to Marin, taxation ranked ninth, behind factors like market access and production costs. But she expects German jobs to keep heading east. "The past is a good indicator for the future," she says. Paul Barnes, COO of KPMG Tax Services for Central & Eastern Europe, is working with a Bavarian client who tells him only two things keep him from moving his factory to Poland: affinity for the town where his factory is based and the trade unions. "He says, 'If I just look at the economics...
...prefers to describe last month's management changes as a "fine-tuning" rather than a "shake-up." But whatever term the scion of sedans wants to use, Bill Ford effectively booted the two Brits fighting over who gets to ride shotgun. Nick Scheele, 60, is relinquishing his role as COO and getting kicked upstairs as company president, while David Thursfield, 58, head of international operations and global purchasing, is simply getting kicked to the curb, with his retirement effective May 1. Meanwhile, Jim Padilla, 57, the Detroit native in charge of the company's Americas division, is taking the role...
...rose from dishwasher to become one of the execs responsible for McDonald's turnaround. She was running 7,500 restaurants in Asia and the Middle East when she was tapped for chief restaurant operations officer, covering everything from equipment to real estate worldwide. With the company's COO post empty since Charlie Bell took over as CEO, following Jim Cantalupo's untimely death, Babrowski's corporate climb may still have a rung...
JONATHAN SCHWARTZ Software Smarty Sun Microsystems is a company in deep shadow. The network computer maker has seen sales drop for 12 straight quarters and recently announced 3,300 layoffs. Trying to brighten that darkness is the ponytailed Schwartz, 38, the firm's new COO. He most recently ran Sun's software division, where he headed new strategies for deploying Sun's Java platform. One ongoing initiative: a push into markets such as China and India, where Microsoft doesn't have a stranglehold and Sun can more easily sell its systems for desktops and devices...