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[The following text appears on the cover.] Free Dennis Kozlowski? Are You Serious? INSIDE STORY HOW PROCTER & GAMBLE PICKED A NEW CEO By JENNIFER REINGOLD PAGE 80 PLUS The Billionaire Buddhist Who Invented the Netbook PAGE 37 HOW TO BUILD GREAT LEADE....
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Selling DETROIT
America's struggling city needs to attract business and talent. Fortune asked five ad agencies with Detroit offices to come up with a pitch and donate the results to the city's cause. See the proposed ads on the following pages and vote for your favo....
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How to Build Great Leaders
To help prepare promising leaders for the future, top companies are forcing their employees to take on new (global) risks. FOR JOHN TOLVA, IBM's Chicago-based director of citizenship and technology, the value of his four-week assignment to Ghana last....
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The Top Companies for Leaders
The world's best businesses know that developing talent is their top priority. Here are the companies that are doing it right. Most large companies love to talk about developing strong leaders. But when it comes down to it, many of them don't know ho....
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The 25 Best Leader Machines
Fortune spanned the globe to find the top companies for developing talent. Those who made the list are positioned on the map at their respective headquarters. 1 IBM HQ: ARMONK, N.Y. REVENUE: $103.6 BILLION EMPLOYEES: 398,455 CEO: SAMUEL PALMISANO 2 P....
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The Regional Rankings
A look at how the individual companies stacked up within their geographic areas. ASIA PACIFIC 1. ICICI Bank, financial services 2. China Mobile Communications--Shanghai, telecom 3. TCL, telecom and electronics manufacturer 4. Hindustan Unilever, cons....
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The $79 Billion Handoff
Secret meetings. A binder full of top talent. Behind the scenes at Procter & Gamble, where A.G. Lafley and protege Bob McDonald are navigating the sweet science of succession. ON JULY 1, A.G. LAFLEY woke up at 6 a.m., worked out, showered, and headed....
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The King of Natural Gas
JOHN ARNOLD HAS MADE BILLIONS AS AN ENERGY-TRADING PHENOM. BUT THE RULES OF HIS GAME ARE ABOUT TO CHANGE. YOU COULD HEAR John Arnold trying to choose his words carefully. Seated at a conference table inside a drab government building in Washington, D....
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Best Buy Wants Your Junk
THE COMPANY'S MASSIVE RECYCLING PROGRAM SEEMS EXPENSIVE TO RUN, UNTIL YOU LOOK AT ALL THE BENEFITS: A GREEN REPUTATION, A FOCUS ON SERVICE, AND A FRESH WAY TO GET CUSTOMERS INTO THE STORES. NO WONDER BEST BUY HAS LEARNED TO LOVE OLD TVs AND EIGHT-TRA....
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How to Beat Wal-Mart
Best Buy's chief thinks the electronics store of the future will focus on service and connectivity, not just gadgets. The scariest six words a consumer electronics chain can hear are "Wal-Mart is getting into your space." That's exactly the problem B....
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KOZ MAKES HIS CASE
THE NOTORIOUS FORMER CEO OF TYCO IS SERVING UP TO 25 YEARS FOR HIS SINS. BUT IN THE AGE OF WALL STREET CHICANERY, IT MAY BE TIME TO RETHINK WHO'S REALLY A CRIMINAL. A CONTRARIAN'S TAKE. FOR INMATE NO. 05A4820, the days are pretty much the same. At th....
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Dump the Dollar! Buy Gold!
CHRIS PIA, A MASTER TRADER AND MOORE CAPITAL ALUMNUS, EXPLAINS THE MARKET. BACK IN 1988, long before Louis Bacon became the secretive hedge fund billionaire atop Moore Capital, he was walking the trading floor at Shearson Lehman when he spotted Chris....
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Turkeys of the Year
From Wall Street to the Beltway, 2009 was a very bad year for business. THANKSGIVING IS UPON US. That makes it a perfect time to contemplate turkeys-as in "What a turkey that deal was!" Almost all of this year's winners have some connection to the fe....
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MC Hammer and Tech VCs Make a Run for Gold
AMID THE MANY ADS touting gold-buying services these days, one has a new model-and a curious pedigree. Eighties rapping phenom MC Hammer (he of the parachute pants) has an equity stake in Cash4Gold, a Pompano Beach, Fla., refinery that invites custom....
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Enron Takes the Stage
A BRITISH HIT BASED ON THE 2001 SCANDAL IS SET TO COME TO BROADWAY NEXT SPRING-AND THEN TO A MOVIE THEATER NEAR YOU. CAN JEFF SKILLING SELL TICKETS ON BROADWAY? That's the bet being wagered by a team of New York theater producers who are spending som....
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The Big Financial Pay Pie
The basic issue is profits, not bonuses. AS THE WORLD KNOWS, the public is up in arms about the compensation being paid at financial companies that owe their very existence to massive government help. Ordinary citizens, earning ordinary pay (or none ....
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The Standardized-Test Smackdown
As college-bound students sit for more entrance exams, the two test makers are fighting for market share. ON THE FIRST SATURDAY in December, thousands of high school students will undergo that American rite called the SAT. A week later thousands more....
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A Deal on Climate Change? Not Exactly
Why December's conference on international climate change won't deliver the goods. LARS G. JOSEFSSON showed up at the UN General Assembly in New York City in September with a petition signed by 244,500 people that called for action on climate change,....
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How Bad Was It?
With economic growth returning, here's a look at how the latest slump compares with previous ones. -3.8% Change in real GDP. Median for the previous 10 recessions: -2.8% -5.1% Change in total employment. Median for the previous 10 recessions: -1.8% $....
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The Yacktman Fund Rules
Now a father-and-son act, the celebrated value portfolio has racked up big returns, showing how patience and a contrarian bent can pay off. WHEN THE HERD of investors heads in one direction, count on Don Yacktman to steer his fund the other way. Back....
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Bove's Bold Bank Call
IF YOU MISSED the rally in bank stocks this year, longtime analyst Dick Bove (right) says not to worry. He predicts that large banks' shares will double by the end of next year. The KBW Bank Index, which tracks 24 of the country's lenders, is up 135%....
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Updating Buffett's Bet
The hedge funds take an early lead as they lose less than the S&P 500 in one of the worst markets on record. But there are nine years to go. REMEMBER "Buffett's Big Bet" (see fortune.com), in which the noted investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway mai....
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HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
You've got enough to worry about. So take the stress out of holiday shopping with our picks for everyone on your list. The Workaholic 1. DESK CLOCK $410, designpublic.com Skip the Scotch and give that Mad Men fan the gift of time with Vitra's Nelson ....
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Fan of Letters
From F.D.R. to Ayn Rand, an unusually entertaining ode to a fading art. THE NOVELIST AND CRITIC Thomas Mallon began to explore the idea of a book about letter writing, he tells us, "when a first-class stamp cost 29¢." Just think of what has happened ....
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FORTUNE.COM
BRAINSTORM TECH INVESTING VOTE MANAGEMENT What's the Best Sales Pitch for a City? Detroit needs business and talent to reinvent itself. Fortune asked five ad agencies in the city to create ads promoting Detroit and donate them for the city's use. See....
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Bunky Hearst's Trust Issues
When the marriage of William Randolph Hearst's grandson hit the skids, Bunky dragged his family's multibillion-dollar media empire into a legal battle that threatened to expose the corporation's secrets. IN SEPTEMBER 2004, John Randolph "Bunky" Hears....
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Table of Contents
FEATURES TOP COMPANIES FOR LEADERS 70 Building Great Leaders To help prepare promising leaders for the future, top companies are forcing their employees to take on new (global) risks. BY GEOFF COLVIN 75 The Global List The world's best businesses kno....
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The Man Behind the Netbook Craze
A few years ago rivals mocked Jonney Shih, chairman of Asustek, and his purse-size laptop computers. Millions of netbooks later, Shih is having the last laugh. ON A HILLSIDE above the Hsing Tian Kong temple in the northern reaches of Taipei, Jonney S....
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Executive Tracks
Study the footprints of the big guys if you want to follow their lead. THE FROST IS ON the pumpkin. A chill is in the air. That can mean only one thing. The worst year in the modern history of our economy is almost over. There have been losers, like ....
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