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Michael H. Jordan dies at 73; executive with CBS, PepsiCo and Westinghouse

2010-05-30 16:14:00

Michael H. Jordan, a skilled troubleshooter who held leadership roles at CBS, PepsiCo and Westinghouse, died Tuesday in New York from complications related to cancer, CBS Corp. announced. He was 73. Jordan was instrumental in crafting the media...

Executive led General Motors during record slump in the '80s

2007-12-01 00:00:00

Roger B. Smith, the General Motors executive who led the world's largest automaker from record profits to record losses in the 1980s and was vilified in the documentary "Roger & Me," died near Detroit on Thursday. He was 82. The former chairman and...

Downsizing Arnold

2004-10-24 00:00:00

Arnold Schwarzenegger walks into Lucca, one of his favorite restaurants near the Capitol, its walls dominated by an enormous painting of a goose and a copper-framed mirror as wide as a Hummer. Bursting from his suit, his hair that peculiar Arnold orange,...

From Owings Mills High School to a cell at Guantanamo

2012-03-03 14:20:00

A studious young man with an aptitude for computers, Majid Shoukat Khan was working as a database administrator in a high-rise office building in Tysons Corner, Va., on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. After American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the...

Motorola Solutions CEO seems to thrive on being underrated, beating odds

2012-02-13 00:00:00

When Motorola Inc. first came courting Greg Brown, he wasn't interested. �� The year was 1998 and Brown, a division president at Ameritech in Chicago, was weighing an offer from Motorola against one from Micromuse, a publicly traded software company in...

HP CEO Gets $28 Million In Cash, Stock After Resignation

2010-08-09 00:00:00

Lauded for making Hewlett-Packard Co. the world's biggest technology company, CEO Mark Hurd was in talks for a new contract worth about $100 million, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. Instead, he's getting about a third of that to...

The week ahead

2007-04-29 00:00:00

Monday: -- March personal income and spending -- March construction spending -- Earnings: Alberto-Culver Co.; Anadarko Petroleum Corp.; Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.; Centex Corp.; CNA Financial Corp.; General Growth Properties Inc.; Genworth Financial Inc.;...

Latest Alabama News

2007-08-09 00:00:00

Latest Alabama news, sports, business and entertainment: HEAT WAVE �� Heat wave continues with no let up in sight �� UNDATED, Ala. (AP) -- Make plans to stay cool this weekend because the intense heat blanketing the state shows no signs of letting...

Bailout (of rum, arrows, race tracks)

2008-10-02 16:24:11

by Frank James What do rum, motorsport race tracks and wooden arrows used by kids all have in common? The financial markets bailout bill, that's what. Taxpayers for Common Sense has compiled a handy list of what it called the......

Blame it on Sept. 11, say scores of struggling firms

2001-11-05 00:00:00

What do Martha Stewart, Big Steel, automakers, Planet Hollywood, trendy clothing manufacturers, software companies, Donald Trump and Scottish pubs have in common? Each is blaming poor financial performance on the recent terrorist attacks. To hear...

Jobless recovery is good for many firms

2003-12-01 00:00:00

The economy roared last quarter, and so did Falcon Plastics Inc. A family owned firm in the eastern South Dakota city of Brookings, Falcon posted record sales in September. Yet there's no impulse to celebrate, no rush to hire. The bad times are still too...

Nasdaq grants raise questions of conflict

2004-01-05 00:00:00

The Nasdaq stock market's foundation made more than $250,000 in donations last year to non-profit groups affiliated with Nasdaq directors, a practice that has come under increasing scrutiny because of conflict-of-interest concerns. In September,...

Former GM Chairman/CEO Roger B. Smith, Nov. 29 Roger B. Smith, who led General Motors Corp. in the 1980s and was the subject of Michael Moore's searing documentary "Roger and Me," died on Nov.29. He was 82.

2007-11-30 12:03:24