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Heckendorn, a native of Valencia, Spain, lost the CEO race last spring during a management shakeup at National Medical, a troubled behemoth that faces $750 million in lawsuits for allegedly overbilling insurance companies. While Heckendorn claims to have been the handpicked successor of Richard Eamer, a co-founder of the firm who stepped aside in the shuffle, the top job went instead to Jeffrey Barbakow, a National Medical director and former executive of the securities firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. According to Heckendorn's suit, influential board members rebelled at the thought of a female CEO and called the idea crazy...
...Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children is that rarest of books: it actually explores everything after that obligatory colon in the title. The book, which is almost never dull, tracks the growth of Nintendo from a Japanese playing-card company founded in 1889 to an international video-game behemoth that by 1992 consistently earned after-tax profits of more than $500 million a year. That's more than all U.S. movie studios combined and more than IBM, Apple or Microsoft...
RESTAURANTS: Behemoth Burger Wars...
...industry leader McDonald's, which has quietly dropped the unpopular McLean Deluxe from its advertising campaigns, the "burger of the month" is the triple cheeseburger. With 4.8 oz. of beef (and 540 calories), it makes the famed 3.2-oz. Big Mac look puny. And other behemoth burgers are being given regional tryouts. In Texas, McDonald's is testing the Double Texas Homestyle Burger, with 8 oz. of beef, and Washington, D.C., outlets are featuring the Mega Mac, which stacks up two quarter-pound patties with cheese, lettuce, pickles and special sauce on a sesame-seed bun, of course. Appropriately...
...cost desktops as powerful as yesterday's closetfuls. Its lead in personal computers has evaporated. Its supremacy in computer chips is a mere memory. In software, upstart companies that didn't exist a little more than a decade ago are running rings around the 78-year-old behemoth. And even worse, IBM has been bogged down by endless rounds of painful restructurings and cutbacks. "IBM is no longer the monolithic monster that strikes fear in the hearts of competitors," says Ulric Weil, a leading computer consultant. "It has proved to be quite mortal after...