Barbara Rose

There was a time before travel site Orbitz hired a CEO--even before it had a name--when its star was chief technology officer Alex Zoghlin. The pony-tailed entrepreneur was known as...

Microsoft is tossing a party at Chicago's United Center. The occasion? America's favorite alleged monopolist is introducing a new version of its Office suite Thursday--easily the most widely used software...

Few commentators were more sought-after at the height of the Internet boom than Northwestern University's Mohan Sawhney. An uncommonly smart man who mines his ideas by rubbing shoulders in the...

It's rarely a good sign when a chief financial officer quits. That's why departing CFOs usually leave quietly, like guests slipping out a back door. Not so with Michael Salvati,...

For Douglas Crocker II, chief executive of Equity Residential Properties Trust, last year was a "catastrophic disaster." Crocker isn't referring to his company's business overall, but rather to the airline...

Few things in life are worse than getting laid off. On the other hand, getting axed by a company that's headed for bankruptcy is, at the very least, galvanizing. Faster...

Our vocabulary is richer in words to describe failure than success. "Bloom," "prosper" and "triumph" make us smile, but they don't grab us with the knee-knocking vigor of words like...

Internet mania produced some unlikely celebrities. Not just overnight millionaires who took their dot-com money and ran, though there were plenty of those. Some also saw their new wealth as...

Bear with me, telecommunications pro Greg Mycio apologized as he tapped away on his keyboard. A computer at a local Walgreens had crashed, you see, and Mycio was left hanging...

A crowd jostles for a glimpse of the wares displayed under a big blue-and-yellow banner. "WORLD'S SMALLEST STORAGE DEVICE," the sign screams. "Fits in your pocket. Convenient. Portable. Take it...