258 CompanyIndex
Evening Exchange, 62
Exxon-Mobil, 106, 146
Fabri-Centers, 164–165
Federal Express, 106, 177
Federal Reserve Board, 8, 190
Financial Accounting Standards Board
(FASB), 156
First Oaks, 106
Folio, 66
Food and Drug Administration, U.S. (FDA),
52
Ford, 112, 185
Freerealtime, 57
French Bourse, 17, 186
Gap, 106
General Electric (GE), 99, 108, 113, 114–116,
121–130, 133–136, 139–142, 147–148, 199–
200, 210, 217, 222–230, 239
General Motors (GM), 199–200, 203
Gillette, 107
Goldman Sachs, 188
Gucci, 107, 185
Hasbro, 108, 177
Heineken, 106
He`rmes International, 106
Hershey’s, 106, 200
HFS Inc., 166
Home Depot, 106, 177
Honeywell, 108
Hoover, 112
IBM, 112, 211
Instinet, 62
Intel, 107
International Accounting Standards Com-
mittee (IASC), 182
International Organization of Securities
Commissions (IOSCO), 189
International Securities Exchange, 187
Island, 62
iX (International Exchanges), 186–187
JoAnn Fabrics, 165
John Deere, 106
Johnson & Johnson, 75
Johnson Controls, 107, 108
Kenneth Cole, 107
Kimberly-Clark, 107
KPMG, 212
Kraft Foods, 213
Learning Company, 213
Leasco, 153
London Stoc kExchange, 7
Longleaf Partner Funds, 11
Lucent, 106
LVMH Moe ̈t Hennessy Louis Vuitton, 185
McDonald’s, 106, 120
McGraw-Hill, 194
Mannesmann, 180, 184–185, 188
Marketwatch.com, 53
Mattel, 108, 213–214
Mazda, 185
MCI, 106
Mead, 107, 194
Mercury Finance, 163–164
Microsoft, 114–116, 121–130, 133–136, 141, 147–
148, 174, 211, 216, 217
MicroStrategy, 153, 166
Mitsubishi, 185
Motley Fool, 54
Motorola, 177
Nabisco, 113, 185
Nasdaq, 5–7, 54, 59, 62, 67, 87, 186, 187
National Association of Corporate Directors
(NACD), 197
National Association of Securities Dealers
(NASD), 187
National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC),
114
National Student Marketing, 153, 164
NEI Webworld, 56–58
Nestle ́, 106
Networ kAssociates, 208
New Yor kStoc kExchange (NYSE), 3–4, 5,
7, 59, 62, 78, 186, 187
Nike, 107
Nissan, 182, 185
Nordstroms, 194
Olivetti, 185
Om Gruppen, 186
Omnigene Diagnostics, 56