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...products, as Volkswagen was reminded when some of its parts turned up in the Chery, a popular Chinese-made car. The Chery is part-owned by the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., which has a partnership with VW to assemble and market popular cars like the Polo and the Jetta. (SAIC says it bought the VW parts on the open market...
...people at successful employee-owned companies want the world to know there are many ways to make workers into owners--and knowing which ways work is crucial. "We're very concerned that people understand the whole story," says Bill Roper, 55, chief financial officer of SAIC, a worker-owned engineering company in San Diego that just posted its 33rd consecutive year of growing sales...
...KORZENIEWSKI, 43 If there is one man who understands the transition from old Washington to new, it's Bob Korzeniewski, CFO of Network Solutions. An accountant by training, Korzeniewski worked for a decade for SAIC, a research and engineering firm. In 1995 SAIC bought Network Solutions, then the sole registrar of names on the Internet. Since that time Korzeniewski has inspired Network Solutions to morph from government grantee to NASDAQ darling, orchestrating the company's successful 1997 initial public offering. Last year many analysts predicted Network Solutions would be crushed when it had to give up its monopoly...
...recruits spend six or seven years in the field before getting their first taste of the presidential detail. Three additional years of seasoning are required before an agent is given the responsibility of preparing security for a major presidential event. (It falls to the SAIC to plan for such dicey foreign ventures as Clinton's 1997 Bosnia tour.) The schedule is routinely grueling. When the President is traveling, a normal eight-hour shift can easily stretch to 18 or even 24 hours. After every six weeks on the job, members of the detail return to the service's facility...
Presidents never get to choose their SAIC--a fact that has led to dustups between the service and past Administrations--and relations between a President and his bodyguard can get awkward when professionalism conflicts with familiarity. Gerald Ford used to invite his chief agent up to the family quarters for a drink, but the agent always declined. As a former SAIC says, "You want the President's respect but not his friendship...