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Disney's Drop
The recent fall in its stock price says less about the company's prospects than about bull market jitters.  
James Surowiecki   May 29, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
The Man With the Bandwidth
John Malone's cable gamble could soon pay off.  
James Surowiecki   May 22, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
The Daimler-Chrysler Collision
Another merger in search of that elusive synergy  
James Surowiecki   May 15, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
Murdoch at the Bat
Why corporate ownership is good for baseball.  
James Surowiecki   May 08, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
The New Japanese Mythology
By forgetting what we've learned from Toyota and Sony in the past, we may be overestimating our strength for the future.  
James Surowiecki   May 01, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
Mindless Merging
Forget the facts. Today's acquisition-minded CEOs just want to make headlines.  
James Surowiecki   Apr 24, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
Dark Days at Sunbeam
CEO Al Dunlap knows how to cut costs--but not how to build a company's future.  
James Surowiecki   Apr 17, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
Big Tobacco's Self-Immolation
The industry doggedly pursued its doom through lying and stock-price obsession.  
James Surowiecki   Apr 10, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
Buy This Ad Agency!
The one thing today's advertising execs can't seem to brand is themselves.  
James Surowiecki   Apr 03, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
Exit Andy Grove
A great CEO is one whose company can do without him.  
James Surowiecki   Mar 29, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
The Planet Hollywood Syndrome
When mediocre food joints and crippled airlines still fly on Wall Street, ya gotta kinda worry ...  
James Surowiecki   Mar 27, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
The Internet-Stock Bubble
Why the bulls of Wall Street charged Web-based stocks this month--and then fled in panic.  
James Surowiecki   Mar 20, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
Caterpillar's Crawl to Control
When it comes to beating unions, companies--and Wall Street--can be very, very patient.  
James Surowiecki   Mar 13, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
The Dell Factor
You can't make CEOs perform like real owner-managers just by overloading them with stock options.  
James Surowiecki   Mar 06, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
Airline Deregulation's Fair-Weather Friends
The last thing the major airlines want is real competition.  
James Surowiecki   Feb 27, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
What Psychic Friends Failed to Foresee
Nowadays, what makes a company successful rarely keeps it successful.  
James Surowiecki   Feb 20, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
Viacom's Shortsighted Search for Synergy
Amassing media properties doesn't build value--especially when the entertainment field itself is in decline.  
James Surowiecki   Feb 13, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
The Taming of the Barbarians
How a rapacious leveraged-buyout firm became a positive force in the corporate economy.  
James Surowiecki   Feb 06, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
The Commoditization Conundrum
It isn't pure competition but the fear of it that drives companies to compete.  
James Surowiecki   Jan 30, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
The Asian About-Face
Suddenly the region's fondest admirers don't love it anymore.  
James Surowiecki   Jan 23, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
The Stock Spinners
Bribes from investment banks to corporate clients are worse than unfair--they're inefficient.  
James Surowiecki   Jan 16, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
The Financial-News Fad
Is America really interested in business--or just in buzz?  
James Surowiecki   Jan 09, 1998   Motley Fool, The  
Toy Story
Toy Story  
James Surowiecki   Dec 26, 1997   Motley Fool, The  
Kodak's Blurry Focus
Unlike Motorola, the company relied on courts to fight its trade battles.  
James Surowiecki   Dec 19, 1997   Motley Fool, The  
OPEC's Oil Shock
Technology--and futures traders--have freed world supplies from the cartel's grasp.  
James Surowiecki   Dec 12, 1997   Motley Fool, The  
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