KEVIN KELLEHER

Fortune • August 12th, 2022

Top finance execs often self-sabotage their success. A coach to top CFOs explains how to avoid it

In these uncertain times, CFOs and other corporate leaders are increasingly turning to Edith Hamilton and her peers in the $14 billion executive-coaching industry. Last year, more than 70% of organizations offered some form of leadership coaching....

Fortune • July 29th, 2022

Alpine Investors finds its edge—cultivating CEOs for its portfolio companies

Graham Weaver founded San Francisco-based Alpine Investors in 2001, but it wasn’t until the depths of the financial crisis that the firm discovered its edge. With several portfolio companies struggling, Weaver was jetting from city to city putting...

Fortune • July 25th, 2022

CalPERS gives an early indication of what 2022 has in store for pension funds

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has long stood heads and shoulders above its fellow pension funds. And because its fiscal year ends on June 30, its annual net investment reports are both a bellwether and a harbinger of...

TIME • June 29th, 2017

How This Startup Founder Triumphed Over His Year of Hell

Any experienced entrepreneur can tell you that two keys to a successful startup are a solid business idea — especially one that solves a big problem for others — and the tenacity to make it work. Kyle Racki hit on the former when he was running a web...

TIME • June 15th, 2017

Silicon Valley's Hot New Snack Was Born in a Prison

Every startup needs a good creation myth. Not many can match Seth Sundberg’s story about his company’s founding. Sundberg left college early, not to write code but to play pro basketball. In time, he transitioned to real estate, managing a mortgage...

TIME • July 16th, 2016

Hubert Joly Brought Best Buy Back From the Brink

The first to fall under the Amazon steamroller were the bookstores. Then fell the music retailers like Tower Records, back when most people listened to music on CDs. Along the way, the big electronics chains began to find themselves struggling too....

TIME • July 11th, 2016

How Postmates Survived and Thrived Despite the Naysayers

Imitation may be a form of flattery, but in the world of tech startups, it can also be deadly. Solve a common problem and copycats are sure to emerge, often undercutting you with lower prices even at the risk of burning through the piles of cash they...

TIME • March 21st, 2016

Once a Darling, Xiaomi Is Facing Tough Questions About Its Future

Not long ago, China’s Xiaomi was being called the next Apple, an epithet that rankled some at both companies. “I don’t see it as flattery,” scoffed Apple’s Jony Ive, who said of Xiaomi’s business model, “I think it’s theft, and it’s lazy.” Meanwhile,...

Fortune • May 21st, 2015

How Sony Got Up and Out of Its Death Bed

In the annals of consumer electronics companies that have slipped from great heights, none has taken a bigger fall far from its glory days than Sony. But after years of struggling to right itself, the company is finally making real progress on a...

Business 2.0 • March 1st, 2006

Suitcase Full of Blues Samsonite used to be the 800-pound gorilla of the luggage world--until it became an endangered species. - August 1, 2003

Things really got bad after they fired Oofi the gorilla. When Samsonite bought American Tourister in 1993, it also took proud ownership of a legendary ad campaign: Oofi savagely hurls a suitcase against the bars of its cage while the bag's contents...

CNN Money • December 1st, 2004

Giving Dealers a Raw Deal

As Goodyear learned, manufacturers ignore the needs of distribution partners at their own peril. In 2000, when Firestone recalled 6.5 million tires linked to SUV rollovers, it was easy for Goodyear to make a convert of Bob Davis and his New Hampshire...

CNN.com • April 1st, 2004

The Drug Pipeline Flows Again Tachi Yamada wrote up the ultimate Rx for GlaxoSmithKline: Making entrepreneurs out of 15,000 scientists. - April 1, 2004

January 2000 still seemed like a blue-sky dream for most of the business world. But a dark cloud had already settled over the heads of Tachi Yamada and Jean-Pierre Garnier, two top executives at SmithKline Beecham, the world's ninth-largest...

CNN.com • February 25th, 2004

66,207,896 bottles of beer on the wall

When Dereck Gurden pulls up at one of his customers' stores -- 7-Eleven, Buy N Save, or one of dozens of liquor marts and restaurants in the 800-square-mile territory he covers in California's Central Valley -- managers usually stop what they're doing...

Business 2.0 • October 1st, 2003

Why FedEx Is Gaining Ground

Why FedEx Is Gaining Ground By converting truck drivers into sales machines and bringing its ground-shipping tech into the 21st century, FedEx is giving UPS a run for its money. (Business 2.0) – It's late morning in San Francisco's South of Market...

Wired • April 10th, 2003

Starlight Express

Nanotech's promise is out of this world. Just ask Brad Edwards, who's planning to build a carbon-nanotube elevator that goes 62,000 miles straight up. Of all the revolutionary technologies just ahead, nanotechnology seems the most outlandish....