Table of contents
SHORT TAKES
According to a recent Arthur Andersen study, only 5% of senior executives have absolute confidence that they can identify, control, or manage business risk. However, the study…
CLIPPINGS
“Crime, accidents, natural disasters, and political unrest all can be devastating to the business traveler…”
Signals: A Little Bat Sense
Tom LloydOne of the critical vectors in biological evolution has been the emergence of more and more sophisticated sensing systems (usually associated with larger and larger brains, to…
BEDER & RAHL:: THE DOCTORS ARE IN
“The common sense element has played significantly in the disasters we've seen,” Tanya Styblo Beder says of the risk management assignments she and her partner, Leslie Lynn Rahl…
SCOTT KURNIT:: RECASTING THE NET
You say you're a multi‐billion dollar telecommunications company with a very successful core business in long distance, wireless and local access, and paging, and you just spent…
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG:: TERMINAL MAN
Hundreds of thousands of financial professionals, upscale consumers, and regular folks start their day with juice, coffee, and some form of news provided by Bloomberg Financial…
LABOR'S BIG 3:: SHIFTING GEARS
Just before the July 27 press conference announcing the plans to merge their three unions into a 2‐million‐member giant, George Becker, Stephen Yokich, and George Kourpias…
PATRICIA CLOHERTY:: CAPITAL GAINS
During a visit to a biotech company, Patricia Cloherty noticed a can opener attached to a wall, enabling the user to open a container without any reflex action. In the “clean…
SCOTT FLANDERS & DAVID WAN:: ADVENTURES IN VIRTUAL PUBLISHING
“We've changed more in the last five years than in the previous 20,” Scott Flanders, president of Macmillan Publishing U.S.A. says of the high tech revolution that is transforming…
R.W. VAN SANT:: STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE
In a sleepy corner of eastern states Pennsylvania, state‐of‐the art technology is transforming a 19th Century steelmaker into a 21st Century mega‐force.
ALAN RYPINSKI:: IN POG HEAVEN
Alan Rypinski, the marketing maven who made Armor All a household name, is banking he'll do the same for a vastly different product: wafer‐like, cardboard milk caps kids flip…
JOHN HUNKIN:: BANKING ON
When NYNEX‐led group needed financing to build a 17,000‐mile undersea fiber optic phone link between Europe and the Far East, it turned to CIBC Wood Gundy, the capital markets and…
BRETT PRAGER:: HEAD OF THE CLASS
MERYL DAVIDSWith colleges under constant pressure to keep tuition down, it's not surprising that many are looking for a prescription for cutting costs in their student health programs. For…
JOHN A. ROLLS:: FOREIGN EXCHANGE
Germany's biggest bank has done business in the United States since 1892, but you'd never know it from the low profile Deutsche Bank maintained in its first 100 years here.
TONY MURRAY:: GOING BY THE BOOK
Five years ago the Filofax personal organizer was in danger of becoming an anachronism of the '80s, taking its place alongside Other “Whatever happened to…?” subjects like Boy…
The Last Word: Doing Your Best
“At last, I'm in the car coming in. Things are still under control this end…How is it with you…? Good. Models…? Good. Lights…? Good. Guest list…? Well, just do your best.”
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