Robert Cantwell was waiting and waiting. As chief executive of Hadady Corp. in South Holland, a small maker of railroad and diesel engine products, Cantwell was accustomed to flying around...
To the admen who gathered at United Airlines' headquarters in 1987, it was almost heresy. The client was telling them to drop "Fly the Friendly Skies," a slogan that had...
United Airlines can't get enough of McKinsey & Co., the consulting firm it hired to develop a turnaround plan on the same day the carrier filed for bankruptcy in December....
United Airlines can't get enough of McKinsey & Co., the consulting firm it hired to develop a turnaround plan on the same day the carrier filed for bankruptcy in December....
Americans are evenly divided in their opinion of Augusta National Golf Club's no-women membership policy, according to a national Tribune poll that reveals deep divisions between the sexes. The poll...
Nothing about the 500 bushels of soybeans delivered last month to the century-old Aurora Cooperative Elevator Co. in Nebraska suggested that they contained a very modern surprise. But mixed into...
A biting late-winter rain soaked the coats of Andersen's top partners and their lawyers as the group shuffled into the Justice Department's Washington headquarters for a rare Sunday meeting. It...
Inside the gleaming Houston headquarters of Enron Corp., it could be hard to distinguish between the energy traders and the Andersen people checking their books. By the fall of 2000,...
Andersen partners had never seen anything quite like it. Their annual meetings usually exuded the kind of sobriety that America's guardians of financial integrity wore like a merit badge. But...
Trading his customary dark suit for a pair of jeans, Mike Gagel trudged over pallet after pallet of multicolored bricks in the central Ohio storage yard. The summer heat was...