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When Ross Johnson, flamboyant head of RJR Nabisco, lost his bid for control of the giant food and tobacco company in a $25 billion leveraged-buyout brawl last year, he also lost his job. Last week RJR's new owner, the buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, announced its surprise choice for Johnson's replacement: Louis Gerstner, 47, marketing maven and president of American Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Now for the Hard Part | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...handful of global media giants." Declared the Chicago Tribune: "The deal creates a corporate dynamo." In Munich the daily newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung disagreed, predicting that the union would be a "Tower of Babel." And on Wall Street, where there had not been much excitement since the contest for RJR Nabisco, investors and speculators were agog over the proposed $9.5 billion exchange of Time shares for Warner's -- the largest stock swap ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deal Heard Round the World | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...RJR has other innovations to offer the shrinking ranks of smokers. The company has been working on Chelsea, a vanilla-scented cigarette designed for women smokers. Test marketing will begin next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: Requiem for A Stinker | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Harvard was a limited partner in the largest LBO ever--the Kravis, Kolberg and Roberts takeover of RJR-Nabisco--and Lewis said that buyout was "very well conceived...

Author: By Darshak M. Sanghavi, | Title: Wall St. Investor Defends Use of Leveraged Buyouts | 3/10/1989 | See Source »

...Massie says, "Congress responds to major events." And, "in the absence of a major event, like another RJR, they probably won't do anything," he adds...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Harvard: Making a Profit | 3/2/1989 | See Source »

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