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General Dynamics Changes Tactics; The defense contractor faces a tough enemy: potential cuts in defense.
SmartMoney.comHistorians will long debate whether the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan helped or hurt the U.S. There's no question, however, that the two conflicts improved the business of General Dynamics, the nation's third-largest defense contractor. In ...
Grand Theft Auto Maker Wants to Carjack the Market; The boss of an iconic video game firm admits he's not a gamer.
SmartMoney.comContrary to popular belief in the video game world, Take-Two Interactive Software hasn't delayed the launch of every game it's made -- more like half the games, the firm says. Its western game Red Dead Redemption was held up for several ...
Having a Beer With the Boss of Molson Coors; Molson Coors's top brew is winning over drinkers, but is that enough to overcome a flat beer market?
SmartMoney.comMolson Coors boss Peter Swinburn can have a beer whenever he wants, of course, but recently he had good reason to crack open a cold one: Coors Light, his firm's top American brand, overtook Budweiser to become the nation's No. 2 ...
CEO Interview: Prudential's John Strangfeld; John Strangfeld led 137-year-old Prudential to double-digit growth last year. Can he keep it up?
SmartMoney.comIt seems fitting that the head of a firm whose symbol is the Rock of Gibraltar projects a certain steadfastness. John Strangfeld, 57, chairman and CEO of Prudential Financial, has worked for the company for a remarkable 34 years, rising to ...
CEO Interview: Darden Restaurants' Clarence Otis Jr. Darden serves a million-plus meals a day. So why does the CEO say its Olive Garden chain needs fixing?
SmartMoney.comOlive Garden goes through literally tons of mozzarella and Parmesan each week, but Gorgonzola, it seems, was a cheese too far. In 2011 the chain, which makes up 45 percent of the sales for Darden Restaurants, introduced "culinary ...
CEO Interview: Novartis' Joe Jimenez; Can Novartis become the world's No. 1 eye-care firm -- on top of being the No. 2 drugmaker?
SmartMoney.comIt's a fact that doesn't escape Joe Jimenez: At Novartis, the big pharmaceutical firm he heads, about one-fifth of last year's net sales, some $10 billion, could, in the not-too-distant future, simply disappear. That's ...
CEO Interview: Visa's Joseph Saunders; Visa makes billions on credit and debit cards without actually issuing them. Now it wants to make many of those cards obsolete.
SmartMoney.comAround the world, people use Visa cards to pay for, on average, $643 million worth of stuff each hour, and Visa, of course, gets a small piece of every one of those transactions. Rather pay with cash? Visa often gets a cut there, too, since ...
CEO Interview: Home Depot; To refurbish retail giant The Home Depot, CEO Frank Blake has needed a lot more than a bucket of orange paint.
SmartMoney.comWhen Frank Blake became the boss of The Home Depot four years ago, some Wall Streeters were dubious. What did Blake, a lawyer by training who had spent much of his career with General Electric, know about selling lumber and plumbing ...
CEO Interview: Norfolk Southern; Railroads are chugging far faster than the broader economy. Wick Moorman tries to keep Norfolk Southern on track.
SmartMoney.comAmong his hobbies, Charles "Wick" Moorman keeps bees and farms oysters, and soon he'll try to make wine from grapes grown on his farm. Over the past year, however, the chief executive of Norfolk Southern hasn't had as ...
CEO Interview: Aqua America; Aqua America will fix the nation's sewers and keep the clean water running -- for a price.
SmartMoney.comTo the untrained eye, a pit of river sludge is just a pool of dark mud. When Nicholas DeBenedictis stares at the stuff, he sees a beautiful liquid, a complex set of chemical reactions working together that turn that brown slurry into clean ...
Striking it Rich With Gold; Tips and thoughts from the CEO of the world's largest goldmining firm.
SmartMoney.comFor a gold mining executive's office, Aaron Regent's is surprisingly lacking in the shiny metal. There are no gold bars, no nuggets, no coins, not even an imposing safe. Rather, a printed-out photograph of a gold nugget is tacked ...
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