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Fortune Magazine June 23, 1997 Nike's Phil Knight Killer Strategies VG
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Killer Strategies That Make Shareholders Rich
From Nike to Home Depot to Harley-Davidson, the companies that do best for their stockholders thrive by taking risks, breaking the rules—being mavericks. In fact, says our author, a leading strategy guru, the ability to “reinvent” the basis of competition within an industry will prove the next competitive advantage.
by Gary Hamel
70
Turning Your Business Upside Down
Management expert Gary Hamel talks with Anheuser-Busch’s August Busch III and Enron’s Ken Lay about what it’s like to launch a new strategy in the real world.
87
Can He Save ABC?
Robert Iger faces the toughest challenge of a charmed career: He has to, all at once, overhaul the network’s sorry prime-time schedule, manage his famously demanding boss at Disney, and bail out a frazzled programming chief.
by Marc Gunther
90
Houston, We Have Some Problems
Compaq Computer faces some Texas-size challenges. Can CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer keep the world’s leading PC maker soaring?
by David Kirkpatrick
102
Richard Saul Wurman: King of Access
Question: What do Bill Gates, Daniel Boorstin, Marvin Minsky, Horace Deets, Herbie Hancock, Nicholas Negroponte, and a slew of other elite doers and thinkers have in common? Answer: They all love this guy’s confabs.
by David Stipp
106
The Next Big Thing: Technotainment
114
INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY
Rail Is Back: All Aboard for a New Class of Customers
Mergers, new technology, and cost cutting have revitalized the once moribund U.S. railroad industry.
by Michael Martin
116[C]
Son of Internet
GTE is buying the firm that built the original. It’s also betting $4 billion to build its own data network. Is this the phone company of the future?
by Andrew Kupfer
120
A Tale of Two Cities
Half a century ago, when the Communists signaled the death of capitalism in China by marching into Shanghai, its brawling commercial capital, Hong Kong was a backwater. Now it’s thriving as one of the most successful economies in the world. Once the two are part of the same country, could their trade places again? A photo essay.
by Roy Rowan
126
