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...know you're a red-hot pepperoni when rivals attack you and employees tremble whenever you come around. A visit from John Schnatter, the perfectionist CEO of the fast-growing Papa John's International pizza chain, makes "the hair stand up on the back of your neck," says Tracy Friedlein, who manages a company-owned pizzeria in Louisville, Ky. "You run to do everything to prove yourself." But Pizza Hut chief Mike Rawlings, who has brought a federal lawsuit charging that Papa John's "better ingredients, better pizza" campaign is false and misleading, sees Schnatter in a harsher light. "They...
...Dear Colleague? letter criticizing the Clinton administration for subjecting the software industry to ?needless regulation through overzealous enforcement of antitrust? laws. ?We must protect our high-tech industry?s freedom to innovate,? said the Oct. 12 letter, copying Microsoft?s p.r. machine practically verbatim. While the letter was circulating, CEO Bill Gates appeared in North Carolina with one of his most vocal Senate defenders, Lauch Faircloth, who is locked in a squeaker of a race. Gates didn?t endorse Faircloth, but spoke warmly of him and thanked him for his help...
...Polo Jeans Company. How can I help you?" This is how Meghan answers the phone, even when she's not at work. She started working for the executive assistant to the CEO at Polo Jeans Company only last week, and already she talks differently and wears tons of black. Who said you take your Harvard degree everywhere you go after graduation? Meghan almost didn't get this job because Ralph Lauren thought she was overqualified...
...take an equity position" in his firm -- more than six months before the June 1995 meeting in which Microsoft allegedly tried to strong-arm its rival into an anticompetitive agreement. The surprise mail was produced with a flourish during the cross-examination of Jim Barksdale; Netscape's current CEO, however, had done his homework. Clark told him, he said, that the message was written "in a moment of weakness...
...effort to drive that point home, Warden peppered chief government witness and Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale Tuesday with questions about his years as a salesman at IBM. Didn't Big Blue throw its weight around, too? "We were trained to behave as if we were a monopoly," said Barksdale, "because we were operating under a consent decree" -- which IBM had the good sense not to test, unlike Microsoft's wrangling last year. Touch?. But didn't IBM do its own fair share of bundling products? Yes, but they were forced to unbundle in 1968, said the Netscape boss, which "gave...