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In Search of the New Change Leader

There is nothing easy or automatic about devising a new architecture of leadership, yet that is what every CEO must undertake to ensure his company’s future.

Ken Unplugged

Utilities around the world are being forced to deal with the advent of open competition for electric power is leading the charge to transform power distribution.

Managing Hypergrowth

When the pace of change pushes a corporation onto the fast track, the curves and dips in the road come fast and furious. CEOs gathered at Chief Executive’s one-and-half-day Symposium, held in partnership with Cushman &Wakefield, discussed the challenges of managing rapid growth at two roundtables and three speaker forums held in September at the St. Regis Hotel in New York.

Growth and Entrepreneurship

The U.S. economy is on a roll. The economy is well into its sixth year of expansion. Unemployment and inflation [...]

A Doll’s House

Jill Barad wants you to think of Mattel not as toy manufacturer, but as a consumer brand company whose brands ha pen to be toys. She’s credited with the makeover of 38-year- largest toy company?

Burden of Proof

Are CEOs overpaid, underpaid or get- ting what they deserve? Answer: all of the above. In this issue CE tackles [...]

Three Pillars of Globalization

CEOs may be divided over the critical measure for success in becoming global. But they are united in reckoning that culture and people are the greatest hurdles to success.

Witness At The Revolution

Do ideas have consequences? John Kenneth Galbraith was fond of quoting John Meynard Keynes’ observation that all businessmen, believing themselves [...]

The Virtual Organization

The Bond Between East and West

HSBC Holdings plc, is well placed to capitalize on the economies of Hong Kong and emerging Asia. After a period of inertia the owner of Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Midland, Marine Midland, and others is making headway. Outwardly John Bond, the group’s CEO, appears serene about the region’s future—-but he’s watching it very closely.