Fat CEOs

Timothy Francis-Wright twright at ziplink.net
Wed Jul 31 20:50:24 PDT 2002


Doug Henwood wrote:


>I once heard it claimed that there's not a single fat CEO of a
>Fortune 500 company. I haven't fact-checked that, but it seems right.
>As I've said before, think how the image of the banker has changed
>from the 300-lb J.P Morgan, who breakfasted on steak, oysters, and
>red wine, to Robert Rubin, marathon-runner.
>
>Doug

I would certainly consider Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco to be more Rubensesque than Rubinesque. Of current CEOs, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft fits the bill as well.

--tf-w



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