JP Donlon

JP Donlon is the Editor-in-Chief of Chief Executive magazine.


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The Fourth Comes Forth

To paraphrase Craig Barrett’s predecessor, it’s wise to stay paranoid.

JP Donlon October 1 1998

The Great Innovation Debate

Improving quality and slashing costs will not be sufficient for U.S. firms to hold their own in the global economy. Nor can the country’s position as an innovation leader be taken for granted. CE gathered business leaders and competitiveness scholar Michael Porter to examine steps CEOs need to take.

JP Donlon May 1 1998

The Great Value Migration

A virtual bookstore called amazon.com takes on b. Dalton. Xerox steals a chunk of the textbook market. Circuit city brings a civilized approach to used car sales and revolutionizes an industry. It’s classic David and Goliath. Or is it invasion of the profit-snatchers? Or maybe attack of the killer concept? Actually, it’s value migration, and it’s coming to an industry near you-or maybe it’s already playing right down the street.

JP Donlon May 1 1997
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The Hartford CEO Liam McGee Primes Insiders to be Next CEO

Even though he was pulled from the outside to turn around a financial services firm, The Hartford, CEO Liam McGee believes in priming insiders for take the helm when he’s gone.

JP Donlon CEO Interviews November 8 2011

The Innovation Mandate

Having a customer-focused process in place is important, but don’t overlook serendipity. If chance favors the prepared mind, unanticipated connections favor organizations ready to exploit them.

JP Donlon June 1 1998

The Last Word

This is my last editor’s column for Chief Executive. After nearly 23 years with CE, I’m shifting career gears and [...]

JP Donlon April 1 2001

The Muddled Leak

If Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were alive today, what would he make of the spectacle that is Hewlett-Packard? No doubt he [...]

JP Donlon November 1 2006

The New Anatomy Of Health Care

Forget “managed” competition. Ordinary competition does nicely, thank you. Now that the fever of out-of-control health-care costs has broken, does this mean the health-care crisis is past? Not entirely. CEOs of both providers and employer-users debate possible prescriptions fop wringing out further costs and upgrading the quality of care

JP Donlon January 1 1996

The New Calculus of Prosperity

In the course of U.S. economic cycles, geography played a key role in the rise and fall of regional economies. This is no longer true.

JP Donlon CEO Briefing Newsletter May 19 2013

The P&G of Prisons

CCA, which ranks seventh in this year’s CE 100 growth index, has consistently ranked in the top 10 over the last three years. Corrections is hardly a glamorous industry and certainly not fashionably high-tech, so how does its CEO, doctor grants, get crime to pay so well-like 70 percent EPS growth since 1992?

JP Donlon May 1 1998

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