Word: presidental
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Executives at Charles Schwab faced a similar painful trade-off in 1997. In 1996 the discount brokerage developed a separate online unit called e.Schwab. "But customers were understandably confused," says Martha Deevy, senior vice president of Schwab's electronic brokerage business. "The online customers wanted to go into a branch...
It was fear that caused Tom Furber to found HomeRuns.com an online grocery-delivery business, in 1996. "I was very concerned that somebody else not in the grocery-retailing space was going to beat us to it," says Furber, vice president for Hannaford Bros., the Scarborough, Maine, supermarket chain that...
How's Al Gore feeling these days? Never better, if you ask anyone inside his campaign--pumped, working without notes, even taking his jacket off. And those polls, the ones showing the Vice President suddenly running slightly behind Bill Bradley in New Hampshire and in a dead heat with him...
To many anxious Democrats, it seems the only people Gore is connecting with these days are TV gag writers. It isn't just that Gore is running an old-fashioned, adviser-laden operation that is high on endorsements but low on energy; it is that he has squandered formidable leads...
While a bloated, imperial operation could hardly be expected to pick up on warning signs, Gore insiders particularly fault Mark Penn, the lead among Gore's half a dozen pollsters. Penn shares his energies with the President, Hillary Clinton and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. Over and over, Penn told the...