COVER STORY The Education of Jeff Immelt The Jack Welch era is history. Suddenly, running GE is a whole new ball game COVER IMAGE: The Education of Jeff Immelt TABLE: A Raft of Troubles for GE TABLE: What GE Watchers Want to Know CHART: What the Numbers Show COMMENTARY: Was Jack Welch's Run All It Was Cracked Up to Be? ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A with GE's Jeff Immelt ONLINE EXTRA: The Days of Welch and Roses? SPECIAL REPORT -- WIRELESS INTERNET All Net, All the Time In Hot Pursuit of the Wi-Fi Wave RESUME: Sky Dylan Dayton You Say You Want a Wireless Revolution? ONLINE EXTRA: Welcome to Wi-Fi World EDITOR'S MEMO The New Numbers Game UP FRONT Talk Show Board Members Become Pariahs Hot Wheels Shareholders Get Steamrolled No Jump-Starting These Batteries Getting a Leg Up on Those Footnotes A Shepherd for Little Lost Laptops What's Missing in Washington? Kids Retiring in Style READERS REPORT The Future of Cadillac Another Look at Variable Life Insurance CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "DoubleClick Take Two" (e.biz, Feb. 18, 2002) "The besieged banker" (Cover Story, Apr. 22, 2002) BOOKS The Loneliness of the High-Powered Woman TECHNOLOGY & YOU An E-Mailer Out to Squash Blackberry ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT Don't Throw Out Options Because Investors Took a Bath ECONOMIC TRENDS Health Care's Economic Payoff A Learning Gap Slows Growth Still a Helluva Town INDUSTRY INSIDER Working on the Railroad: A Q&A with John Krenicki BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: The Forward Spin from a Backward Glance at GDP Sweden: The Riksbank Breaks Ranks to Battle Inflation NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Israel: The Economic Cost of War An Economy Left in Ruins Bush Starts Falling Back to Earth Commentary: How Prosperous Are We? Trying to Build a Wall on Wall Street Commentary: Don't Mess with Sergeant Pitt Everything You Need to Know about Cloning IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK James Houghton: Through the Revolving Door HP and Compaq: It's Official--Almost Why Uncle Sam's Wallet Looks Thin Maybe Mike Ovitz Needs an Agent Sighs of Relief in Silicon Valley IBM and Hitachi: Team Drivers Et Cetera... A Spurt at Sprint WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Accounting: Congress Only Looks Like It's Getting Tough The Energy Lobby Hits Pay Dirt INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Messier's Mess Vivendi's outspoken boss has fired a popular TV mogul, taken a huge write-off, and watched the company stock drop sharply Commentary: This @?#%! Digital Car Won't Drive A surfeit of gizmos is leading to glitches and hurting performance in the latest generation of autos The Decline of the Maquiladora SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Commentary: LCDs: A World That's Flat--and Unprofitable DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH Calming the Tremors of Parkinson's Windows You Can Hold in Your Hand Copier, Spare That Tree Turf Toe May Soon Be a Thing of the Past FINANCE Commentary: Still Spooked by the Market Can Toxic Mold Spoil a Stock Offering? Commentary: Mutual Funds: Investors Are Still in the Dark INDUSTRIES Commentary: What's Weighing Down the Big Carriers THE CORPORATION A Speedy Makeover at Penney's PEOPLE A New Kind of Marlboro Man RESUME: Louis C. Camilleri MEDIA Commentary: Media Mergers: The Danger Remains SOCIAL ISSUES Does Universal Preschool Pay? BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR A World of Opportunity outside the U.S. Emerging Markets: No Longer Down and Out Many of these bourses have regained their shine -- with South Korea, Mexico, and Russia leading the way It's a Small-Cap World After All The Road to the Governor's Mansion THE BARKER PORTFOLIO Is JetBlue Flying Too High? INSIDE WALL STREET Gillette's New Edge Just Idling at DaimlerChrysler Set to Thrive at TheraSense FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS A Ripe Time for Reform The Cost of Media Consolidation INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Tech's Myopia Shut It out of the Top 50 How to Improve U.S. Wireless Service A Crooked Cop Is Even Worse Than a Crooked Robber INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS China's Big Bet on Gas Indonesia: Foreign Telcos Are Ringing Off Commentary: Japan Can't Get School Reform Right, Either INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS Calling All High Rollers--to the Web Suddenly, online gambling is big business in Europe -- with British punters leading the way INTERNATIONAL -- LATIN AMERICA "There Are No Magic Solutions" INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf) INTERNATIONAL -- EDITORIALS The Atlantic Alliance Needs Tending
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