COVER STORY Hot Growth Companies Innovative small-cap companies are turning creativity into profits--and beating the pants off of corporate america COVER IMAGE: Hot Growth Companies TABLE: The Winners by Three Measures Only Some of the Hot Stay Hot TABLE: The 1999 Winners...and the Losers Chico's FAS: How It Got Its Groove Back America Service Group: This Company Likes It in Jail Aaon: When Cool Heads Prevail NVIDIA: Cashing In on the Games People Play Frontier Airlines: A Simple and Elegant Flight Pattern Delta & Pine Land: This Cotton Is No Puffball ONLINE EXTRA: CEB: A Collector--and Seller--of Knowledge SCOREBOARD: 2001 Hot Growth Companies INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY Taiwan & China While Taipei's politicians defend independence, business leaders want to fully unite the economies INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN COVER STORY
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UP FRONT Talk Show AOL Time Warner's Power Towers Workers, Surf at Your Own Risk Europe's New Export: Big Cheeses Call 'Em Brain-Cell Phones Now You Can Adopt a Monument As the Downturn Turns Footnotes READERS REPORT Why the "Three Amigos" Still Have Friends Market Forces Will Ring True with the Baby Bells The Ascent of Federal Express Their Kind of Town, Chicago Is CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "Ground wars" (Industries, May 21, 2001) "Sorry, Steve: Here's why it won't work" (News: Analysis & Commentary, May 21, 2001) "The most aggressive CEO" (Cover Story, May 28, 2001) LETTER FROM NEW YORK Alphabet City: The ABCs of Gentrification BOOKS He Built a Great Paper. Then He Quit Old E-News Skewering Henry TECHNOLOGY & YOU A Road Test of Traveling Laptops ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT A "Yankee Imperialist" Offers Asia a Road Map ECONOMIC TRENDS Why Americans Work So Hard Those with the Guts to Say "Sell" Clouds Aren't Breaking in Tech BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: Tax Money Will Soothe the Second Half Germany: A Weak Start--and No Pickup until Yearend NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Broadband: What Happened? Commentary: Lucent: Suddenly, the Hole Is Even Deeper Commentary: The Tax Cut That Got Away A New Banking Chairman Enters from Stage Left Ford vs. Firestone: A Corporate Whodunit Firestone: Is This Brand Beyond Repair? Commentary: Who Wins in the Smackdown over DirecTV? IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Casey Martin: "I Think This Opens the Door" Tyco Just Got Bigger--Again Sun under a Revenue Cloud Conoco's Canadian Exposure EMC: Another Tech Leader Falters Big Intel Chip Inside Et Cetera... RadioShock WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Tom Daschle: Will the New King of the Hill Overplay His Hand? Steel's Fresh Hope Bush Is Warming Capping Energy Costs INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Q&A with Gerhard Schroder: "There's Really No Reason to Worry About...the Euro" BP to Washington: Time's Up over Iran INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK U.S. Foreign Policy: Powell Is Steering toward the Middle Cracking Down in France Shaking Up Gazprom SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Arresting Alzheimer's DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH Welding with Laser-Beam Precision Troubled Kids: It's Nurture, Not Nature Measuring the Muscle of R&D Spending Innovations MANAGEMENT Basic Training for CEOs ENTERTAINMENT Moanin' the Blues in Nashville SOCIAL ISSUES Commentary: Is the Economy's Safety Net Recession-Ready? GOVERNMENT Is the EPA Sandbagging Business? ECONOMICS Commentary: Electricity: Reforms That Will Save Money INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Where the Net Delivers: Travel FINANCE Damaged Goods Media Stocks: Why There's Such Buzz Commentary: Politicians Should Butt Out of Pension Funds MARKETING Commentary: Minorities: An Almost-Invisible $1 Trillion Market BUSINESSWEEK LIFESTYLE Shopping for a New TV? Bring Aspirin My Life on Video: The Director's Cut Is That a Frog or a French Horn? Free Your Bookshelves: Toss Those Music CDs Mixed Blessings for Audiophiles BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR An Insurance Hunter's Weapon of Choice: The Web THE BARKER PORTFOLIO Kraft's IPO: Not Too Cheesy INSIDE WALL STREET A Jackpot for IGT? ImClone May Have a Cancer Blockbuster Potent Partners for Informix FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS The Tax Cut: Smile Now, Worry Later Tight Money Is Choking Europe INTERNATIONAL -- EDITOR'S MEMO The Price of Globalization INTERNATIONAL -- SPOTLIGHT ON SLOVENIA As Alcohol Fuels a Suicide Epidemic...Health Workers Start to Fight Back INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Don't Overestimate China: It's Still Totalitarian Leave Foreign Policy to the Free Market Blair's Legacy of EU Integration Bush Energy Policy: "More Than a Sin, a Blunder" The Indirect Savings from DirecTV Greenspan Must Set a Course, Not Run with the Wind Want to Stop the Rush to California? Say "Earthquake" INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS Honda's Weak Spot: Europe ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A: Honda CEO Hiroyuki Yoshino Commentary: Korea's Kim Should Stop Shielding Daewoo Will Banking Reform Get the Boot, Too? A Corporate Pilgrimage to the Taj INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS Q&A: A Talk with Schroder Vivendi's Staying Power Meet France's First Celebrity CEO INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICA How an Electricity Shortage Is Blacking Out Brazil's Growth Savia: A Seed Empire Withers on the Vine INTERNATIONAL -- MIDDLE EAST Iran's President Khatami Prepares to Plow Ahead INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE Japan's Perilous Bet on Bonds Will Scandal at Crédit Lyonnais Topple Chairman Jean Peyrelevade? INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf) INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS Bashing America Won't Help Europe Like It or Not, a One-China Economy INTERNATIONAL -- EDITOR'S MEMO The Price of Globalization
May 28, 2001
Dialing for Dominance in Korea
Koor's High-Tech Makeover Didn't Make It
Cover Photograph by Brian Smith
Asian Cover by Matt Mahurin
European Cover Digital Illustration by Roger Kenny/BW; Photographs (L to R) No Credit; Andreas Pohlmann/Stock 4B; Pierre-
Antoine Grison/Srates; Piotr Malecki/Liaison Agency/Spectrum; Werner Schuering; Lehtikuva Oy
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