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Larry Ellison
Tyco International Ltd.
Dennis Kozlowski , 54
CEO since 1992

Industry: Manufacturing
Sales: $30.31 billion
Net Income: $4.77 billion
Corporate Snapshot: TYC

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Kozlowski's formula for hypergrowth relies on steady dealmaking and holding a lean team to fat growth targets. The Securities & Exchange Commission dropped its investigation into his accounting practices last summer. He got back to business: In 2000, he did $9 billion worth of deals. Tyco generated 27% sales and 149% earnings growth, even while making such items as valves and disposable medical products. With his recent deal for finance company CIT Group Inc., Kozlowski is venturing away from old-line industries for the first time.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.
Robert J. Allison Jr., 62
CEO since 1986

Industry: Fuel
Sales: $5.69 billion
Net Income: $824 million
Corporate Snapshot: APC

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Houston-based Anadarko is the world's largest independent oil exploration and production company, and the most active driller in North America. Allison has steered the company through a series of deft acquisitions, including last year's $4.4 billion purchase of rival Union Pacific Resources. The deal helped double Anadarko's 2000 oil and gas production; that, plus soaring prices, led to an increase in profits of 1,816%. Allison continues to focus on natural gas, dedicating most of this year's $2.8 billion capital spending budget to finding reserves. In February, he bought Canadian natural gas producer Berkley Petroleum Corp. for $1 billion

Calpine Corp.
Peter Cartwright, 71
CEO since 1984

Industry: Utilities
Sales: $2.26 billion
Net Income: $325 million
Corporate Snapshot: CPN

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Cartwright wants Silicon Valley-based Calpine to be one of the nation's largest wholesalers of power—selling to utilities and municipalities with a nationwide grid of gas-fired power plants concentrated in the West, the South, and New England. You won't see a Calpine plant on every street corner, but Cartwright's idea is to emulate the McDonald's Corp. and Wal-Mart Stores model by expanding rapidly and using the company's size to leverage economies of scale. It expects to generate an impressive 70,000 megawatts of electricity by 2005—enough to light up 70 million homes.
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