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...playing A Tribe Called Quest on the sound system ("It's so chill"); promising Liz, her trademark attorney, who drops by, that, yes, she would join her kick-boxing class; and celebrity name-dropping (Alicia Silverstone and Lenny Kravitz use her polish). Recently she dismissed her 61-year-old CEO to assume the title herself. "My goal is to expand into a cutting-edge, full cosmetics company," she says, adding with a sly smile, "I want to dominate...
...Hoeksema, 50, Midwest's chairman and CEO, is a walking advertisement for the benefits of deregulation. He started as a pilot with Kimberly-Clark Corp. in 1969, back when the government assigned routes and set profit margins, assuring existing carriers a captive market and barring new entrants. It was partly because Kimberly-Clark's headquarters, then in Neenah, Wis., was off the beaten path that the company started its private fleet. "Air travel was difficult and expensive. We were frustrated," Hoeksema says. The paper company named its unit Midwest Express Airlines and began offering service to the public--specifically...
Still, a little de-reg can go a long way, as it has for Peter Johnson, president and CEO of Agouron Pharmaceuticals in La Jolla, Calif. Earlier this year the FDA, using a streamlined process specifically developed for life-threatening diseases like AIDS, gave a green light to Viracept, the firm's new anti-HIV drug...
...also unleashed such new rivals as United Parcel Service to take away customers from the complacent. "If you look at the list of the 100 biggest companies in the business in 1979 before deregulation, today there are only nine or 10 left," says Thomas J. Donohue, president and CEO of the American Trucking Association...
...wallet do you need to knock the $100 billion-a-year local-telephone industry into a new shape? J. Shelby Bryan, 51, CEO of ICG Communications, Inc., of Englewood, Colo., is trying to find out. Bryan, a former Golden Gloves boxer as well as a banker, entrepreneur and corporate-turnaround artist, took charge of ICG, then known as IntelCom Group, in 1995. A good time to jump in, given the impending passage of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, which ordered the Baby Bell phone companies to end their monopolies of local service. Now Bryan is trying to outsprint other...