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...Barbie's corporate mom, Mattel president Jill Barad, 45, the line represents the first test of her stewardship of the company. In January, Barad will become one of just four women to head a Fortune 1000 company when she succeeds ceo John Amerman, who is retiring. It was Barad, a onetime cosmetics marketer and knowledgeable about the whims of fashion, who rehabilitated Barbie's image in the 1980s, recasting her into a hip toy and a global franchise for the company...
...time to step to the plate, Al. As in Casey at the Bat, the runners are on base, the stage is set--and yuda man. So far, as CEO of Sunbeam Corp., you've certainly not let shareholders down. But this ain't Mudville; it's Wall Street, and investors want to be sure you've still got some pop in your bat. Why not show them? Open your wallet and buy another $3 million of Sunbeam stock. Heck, make it $5 million. That's pocket change for a guy who just made $100 million in 20 months and insists...
Dunlap, 59, is a talkative, roll-up-the-sleeves corporate turnaround specialist who burst onto the scene with a remarkably short, lucrative and controversial tour as CEO of venerable Scott Paper in 1994 and '95. The maker of Viva and ScotTowels asked him to shake things up. So Dunlap sold billions of dollars in assets, chopped 35% of the work force, paid down debt and refocused the firm. By the time Scott was sold to Kimberly-Clark late last year, its stock had tripled, and Dunlap, via generous stock options and grants, had tucked away $100 million for himself...
...more than a year, two of Silicon Valley's most outspoken maverick CEOs--Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems and Larry Ellison of Oracle--have been promising to turn the PC industry on its ear with a revolutionary machine they call the network computer, or NC. This stripped-down, easy-to-use communications device would cost less than $500, plug seamlessly into all kinds of computer networks and lure millions of technophobic home users onto the Internet. Best of all, as far as McNealy and Ellison are concerned, it would be based on a new programming language, Java, that promises...
...victim of the information glut. In fact, they offer readers a way to cut through to the most important news of the day. Newspapers will continue to play an essential role in the lives of Americans well into the next century. JOHN F. STURM, President and CEO Newspaper Association of America Reston, Virginia...