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The Engine at ITT

Most mornings when he’s not traveling, Travis Engen, chairman, president, and CEO of ITT Industries, eases his Acura NSX out of his suburban Connecticut garage

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Are Two CEO’s One Two Many

On the corporate battlefield, conventional wisdom has long echoed Napoleon’s leadership maxim: better one mediocre general than two brilliant ones. But a flurry of mega-mergers has companies rethinking the concept of a shared CEO chair. Can a co-CEO structure work? Or will it inevitably disrupt corporate balance and fuel dissension in the ranks-and at the top?

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Measuring Intangible Assets

A company’s intangible assets can often be its greatest competitive weapon. But, until now, those assets have been missing from the balance sheet. Here’s how one 111 firm measures them.

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The Other Coors

Brothers Joe and Jeff Coors run the least glamorous, least famous company within their family’s business empire: ACX Technologies, a manufacturer of corrugated boxes and

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Two Years Ahead

In the 60’s, geeks were geeks and computers were large, slow, and clunky. Working in the high-tech industry was hardly the hip career choice it

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Transitions

Daniel P Burnham, 51, was named president and COO of Lexington, MA-based Raytheon Co., a $13.7 billion global technology company. Previously vice chairman of AlliedSignal,

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Reexamining Reagan

Ronald Reagan: How An Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader. By Dinesh D’Souza. Free Press, $25, 292 pp.Ronald Reagan left office in BY 1989 with

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Treasure Hunt

William G. Kelley has been boosting sales for the nation’s largest closeout retailer since the very first day he walked into a Consolidated Store back

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