COVER STORY Rick Wagoner's Game Plan CEO Rick Wagoner has fixed many of GM's problems. But he still has to deal with 30 years of management mistakes COVER IMAGE: GM's Game Plan GRAPHIC: Wagoner Stabilized GM's Market Share...And Is Narrowing the Productivity Gap... GRAPHIC: Malibu on a Budget GRAPHIC: Legacy Costs, Import Threat GRAPHIC: GM's Big Three ONLINE EXTRA: Rick Wagoner: "We Needed a Spark" UP FRONT News Flash Airbus: Zeroing in on Kansas The Enforcer Strikes Again Stats: Now You See 'em... The Naysayers Have It Viagra: Nice Perk If You Can Get It Not Exactly a Straight Shooter READERS REPORT Weighing In on the Bush Plan Give It a Chance Crony Capitalism Questioning the Question The Economy Won't Get a Boost It's Spending That Stimulates Unintended Consequences A New CEO Pay Gambit Wouldn't This Be Better? McCain's Muddled Thinking By the Way, Hate Your Cover BOOKS Why Japan Can't Get Its Groove Back The BusinessWeek Best-Sellers of 2002 TECHNOLOGY & YOU Smart Phones: Try, Try Again ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT The Dividend Tax Cut Will Get Better with Time BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: Will War Bring Down the Rickety Recovery? Canada: The Inflation Hawks Are Circling NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY The Economy Is Still in Limbo Profits: They Aren't As Good As They Look A Man, an Economic Plan--and Not Much Backup Commentary: Why the Dividend Tax Cut Adds Clutter to the Tax Code It's Not "All About Oil," but... Music Merchants Rush in Where Labels Have Failed Cisco: Making a Federal Case out of It Commentary: Goodbye to an Ethicist IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Mickey Drexler: J.Crew's Redresser? KPMG: Bitten by the Watchdog Treading Water at NextWave Will Paul Allen Chop Up Charter? Storage Wars, Round 2 Delta Sings a Cheaper Song Et Cetera... Harsh Reaction WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Enough with the Rhetoric, the Right Wants Results Held Accountable Social Security Plus INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Death of a Dream at Sendo ABB: Work Your Magic, Herr Dormann Finally, Coke Gets It Right in India INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK The Franco-German Alliance That's Splitting the EU French Corruption--Non ? Egypt's New Currency Regime LEGAL AFFAIRS Family Feuds Don't Get Nastier Than This FINANCE Commentary: Just a Minute, Mr. Donaldson Did E*Trade Just Trade Up? Why It's Open Season on Mutual Funds SPORTS BUSINESS Pro Teams: Name Your Price, Sport ENTERTAINMENT Is Steve Jobs About to Move His Cheese? SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Commentary: Medicine: A Cold Look at the Cost of Saving Lives INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Tech's Kickback Culture ONLINE EXTRA: Time to End "Friends-and-Family" Shares BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR Sleuthing Stocks on the I-Way The Dish of Your Dreams? Cutting the Cell Phone Cord Couture Chocolates: Now That's Sweet A Portfolio of Advice for Grim Times Great Power Plays? DIVIDENDS The Stat Street Rhymes Hello, Birdie Light Touch THE BARKER PORTFOLIO Why Things May Go Better with Coke INSIDE WALL STREET Retail Goes Shopping Can Tenet Fight Off Its Many Ailments? AEP Really Looks "Dead in the Water" FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS Stay Focused, Mr. President Set the Telecom Industry Free INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT Another Korean War? Don't Even Think about It For Too Many CEOs, "Nothing Succeeds Like Failure" INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS Mitsubishi Moves into High Gear Why NTT Is Running Scared INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS Commentary: Mourn Gianni, Yes--but Not His Management Style INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE Euro Finance: Rumors of Marriage From Crony Bank to Consumer Darling INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf)
January 20, 2003
Marketing: Diesel Is Smokin'
from this issue
Cover Photo Composite by Donna Terek (Wagoner), Alan Vanderkaay (SSR)
For articles in the February 10, 2003 domestic edition previously published in international editions
RECENT ISSUES
•
Is Your Job Next?
The NFL Machine
Search Previous Issues
Subscribe to BW Magazine
SPECIAL REPORTS
Best Global Brands
Best Places to Launch a Career
BusinessWeek 50
Asia's BusinessWeek 50
Europe's BusinessWeek 50
Customer Service Champs
Hot Growth 100
Asia's Hot Growth 100
Europe's Hot Growth 100
Info Tech 100
World's Most Innovative Companies
•
More Special Reports
=Subscribers Only
Copyright 2003, by The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. All rights reserved.
Online Highlights
BusinessWeek 50
Info Tech 100