Nancy Ryan

Seasoned by two decades of telecommunications experience at the time of the 1984 breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Raymond W. Smith clearly saw the potential of the new...

Whether outraged by his hardball tactics or awed by his vision, observers of John C. Malone seem to agree on at least one thing: No other telecommunications leader has played...

With its $330 billion annual output of goods and services, the Chicago area will survive the economic impact of Michael Jordan's retirement from professional basketball. But there is little doubt...

Sandra L. Derickson, president of GE Capital Auto Lease in Barrington, remembers she wanted to "save the world" when she graduated with a degree in sociology from Eastern Illinois University...

Americans' growing health consciousness and enthusiasm for ethnic foods has helped fuel the success of one of the area's more original food companies. W.J. Clark & Co., at 5400 W....

John Malec, the founding chairman of struggling micro-marketer VideOcart Inc., resigned Friday from the Chicago firm, three days after stepping aside as chief executive. William B. McKnight Jr., one of...

Ten years after the seven poisoning deaths in the Chicago area caused by cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules sent shock waves across the country, the murders remain unsolved and the investigation open....

Barbara Proctor founded Proctor & Gardner Advertising Inc. in the early 1970s and until just several years ago was the only black female head of an advertising agency in the...

Elegant and self-assured, Sara Lee Corp.`s chief executive, John H. Bryan, once said he owed almost everything to the unyielding confidence his parents inspired during his boyhood in Mississippi. That...