COVER STORY The Numbers Game Companies use every trick to pump earnings and fool investors. The latest abuse: "Pro forma" reporting COVER IMAGE: The Numbers Game TABLE: Tricks of the Trade TABLE: Red Flags TABLE: Spinning Earnings TABLE: How Network Associates Halved Its Loss TABLE: A Report Card on the Regulators The Last Word at First Call INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY Mitsubishi's Mr. Fix-It? DaimlerChrysler's Eckrodt has only a short time to save Mitsubishi Motors INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY Renegade Ryanair Can CEO Michael O'Leary capture the Continent? BUSINESS WEEK E.BIZ
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UP FRONT Talk Show Are We Seeing the Economy Straight? Professor Gore Makes the Grade Another Vineyard on the Barbie Where Smaller Is Better Where Have All the Pay Phones Gone? How to Jump the Line at the Movies As the Downturn Turns Footnotes EDITOR'S MEMO An E-Preview of B-Schools READERS REPORT Who's to Blame for the Telecom Meltdown? How to Keep Nuclear Plants Humming If the Green Carrot Works, Who Needs the Stick? Treat Internet Info Just Like Credit-Card Data Back to the Drawing Tablet for These Computers A New Source of College Funds? I'll Buy That CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "In need of a recharge" (International Business, May 7, 2001) "Go Ahead: Read My Card" (Up Front, Apr. 30, 2001) BOOKS Walking in Darwin's Footsteps TECHNOLOGY & YOU Sony's Handheld Gets Best of Breed ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT What Business Should Be Telling the President ECONOMIC TRENDS A Phony Negative Savings Rate The Last Step Up Is a Big One London Digs Are the Dearest INDUSTRY INSIDER Q&A: How Dell Keeps from Stumbling INDUSTRY MONITOR "I Just Want to Say Two Words: Plastics and Clay" How Big a Debt Do We Owe to Plankton? Lean Rewards Innovations BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: Will a Rainy Second Quarter Make for a Sunny Second Half? The Euro Zone: Inflation Paralyzes the ECB NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY The Energy Crisis: Dark Days Ahead? Commentary: Why We Need to Simplify Fuel Standards Commentary: Don't Write Off Energy Conservation, Mr. Cheney Energy IPOs: A New Blockbuster on Wall Street The Road Looks Rougher for Motown--and the Economy Commentary: Predatory Pricing: Cleared for Takeoff How the Super-Rich Lucked Out Twice What Does This Town Need? New Senators IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Alan Feldman: McDonald's Just Supersized His Order Going, Going, Gone--to Trial? Intermission Time at BMG A Bumpy Ride at Evenflo Better Chemistry Yields Pink Slips You Gotta Have a Catalog Et Cetera... What a Price WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Bush's Accidental, Unprepared, Hugely Successful First 100 Days Speedier Generics? Weakening Securities Rules Retirees Unite! INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Missile Shield--or Red Flag? COMMENTARY: It's Rocket Science--and That's Not Good Can Koizumi's Team Keep Him Riding High? MARKETING Miller's Genuine Drought THE CORPORATION Boston Market: There's Life in the Old Bird Yet PEOPLE Leonard the Giant Killer? RESUME: Leonard D. Schaeffer SOCIAL ISSUES The Shape of School Reform ENTERTAINMENT This Pearl Harbor Looks Like a Victory INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY If Anyone Can Save Excite... FINANCE Funds Just Aren't Having Any Fun While Rivals Struggle, Fidelity Sharpens Its Technology Edge Technically Speaking, the Market Looks Good INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT The Greening of the Wasteland Some Plants Really Dig Poisoned Soil SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Commentary: The Future of Optical Chips Is No Illusion DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH Bionic Lungs Coming? Mining Electricity The Body's First Line of Defense against Cancer Knowing When the Satellite Is Running on Empty BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR Taking the Measure of a Stock Hasta la Vista , Baby When Do-It-Yourself Isn't Good Enough THE BARKER PORTFOLIO What's Instinet Worth to You? INSIDE WALL STREET Plumped-Up Furniture? Jones Apparel Steps Out in Style AOL Discovers Hollywood Media FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS Time to Cut the Accounting Shenanigans Missile Defense: A Tricky Course INTERNATIONAL -- LETTER FROM VIEQUES The Fight against War Games in Paradise INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON SOUTH KOREA Tours to the North Are in Trouble...But Will They Get a Lifeline? INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Is Spying the Right Way to Deal with China? Europe's Pension Woes: Immigrants Are the Answer Price Controls Take the Power out of the Market Singapore Isn't Stalled Anymore The Mideast Tragedy Has Many Acts Remaining Exxon Mobil Should Pony Up to Save the Tigers Import Tariffs Shouldn't Soak the Poor INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS Indonesia: The Plot Thickens, and the Economy Dangles INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS Why Germany and France Are Veering Left Did a Business Leader Demand Too Much, Too Soon? Commentary: How to Fight the Fear of Growth "You've Got to Be Crazy Not to Buy a Diesel" (int'l edition) The Handhelds Get a Grip INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE Who'll Take Charge in Frankfurt? Walloped by the "Super Peso" "I'll Trade You a Baby Crib for a Buzz Saw" INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf) INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS Why Not a German Model for Europe?
May 7, 2001
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