Author: Kim S Nash

Dana Corp.: Ready, Set, CIO

Bruce Carver stood before a dozen technology managers seated around a polished conference table at Dana Corp., a $9.1 billion automobile parts maker. As the

Michaels Stores: Shipping Out

With racks of silk flowers and Styrofoam balls, shelves of picture frames and glue guns, Michaels Stores is a crafter’s paradise. Unseen, however, by the

Energy

At age 15, the $1.7 billion Chesapeake Energy Corp. may be young, but it could school more senior competitors in how to manage information. Founded

AFLAC: Duck Soup

No one hands you $60 million to spend on technology if you don’t know how to plan projects and manage people well enough to make

Dollar General: 8 Days To Grow

Today’s dollar store is a five-and-dime shop, adjusted for inflation. It’s what Sam Walton envisioned when he created Wal-Mart in 1962: a neighborhood store selling

CIO Pay Survey: Pay It Backward

The small club of information- technology executives who are among the five highest-paid officers at their companies has gotten smaller. The shift may indicate that

Roadblock: 4,170 Newbies

The Obstacle Dollar General needs about six people to work each of the 695 stores it plans to open this year, to run cash registers,

Quixtar: Cleaning Up

Amway, A multilevel marketer of cleansers and vitamins, hasn’t done business in the U.S. since 1999. That’s when Amway founders invented Quixtar. Its business model:

Call for Help

On the average Chicago day, as the hulking Sears Tower stands watch and Lake Michigan glints blue in the sun, 44 people call the city