John McCarron

Your name is Richard M. Daley and you have just been re-elected mayor of Chicago with a resounding 71 percent of the vote. You took a week`s vacation to unwind...

Two weeks ago, the financial wires carried a story out of Providence, R.I., about the downsizing of Brown & Sharpe. The directors of the 158-year-old company, one of America`s oldest...

The man who headed Chicago`s second-ranked corporation is about to take on Chicago`s first-ranked problem: public education. Richard M. Morrow did not have to do this. He could have retired...

There`s a new management concept out there called ''quality.'' What`s that? You already know about ''quality''? Well, you only thought you knew. Like me, you probably figured quality was a...

When I took this job, the boss asked me to read all the department`s incoming mail for one month. This would give me insight, he said, into the kinds of...

The OPEC oil ministers have scheduled a meeting Monday in Switzerland to discuss how high the price of oil should go now that Iraq has been chased from Kuwait. It...

Now that the fighting is over, the big tanks from Chicago are ready to move into Kuwait ... if they get invited. We`re not talking here about the M-1A Abrams,...

Felix Rohatyn, America`s most respected investment banker, rode into Chicago last week with a warning more dire than any that Paul Revere shouted to the sleeping folks of Lexington and...

Chicago`s team in the World Business League did okay last week. Team Chicago blocked Team London on one play. Then it lined up to stop Team New York by sending...

The tax buyers are back. Like crows to a familiar telephone wire, they have returned to the folding chairs in the hallway on the fourth floor of the County Building...