Ross Johnson: News & Videos about Ross Johnson - CNN.comhttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Ross_JohnsonFind stories, videos, and photos about Ross Johnson from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:09:52 GMT5Ross Johnson: News & Videos about Ross Johnson - CNN.comhttp://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gifhttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Ross_Johnson14433Find stories, videos, and photos about Ross Johnson from CNN.com.ROSS JOHNSON: WHERE IS HE NOW? http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/02/08/77431/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/02/08/77431/index.htmYou can't keep a rich man down. Aced out of control of RJR Nabisco in 1988, CEO F. Ross Johnson walked away with $56 million. In 1991 he teamed with conglomerateur David Mahoney and a partner to pa...Mon, 08 Feb 1993 05:01:00 ESTWANTED: AN ACTOR TO PLAY HENRY KRAVIShttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/11/18/75744/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/11/18/75744/index.htmThe makers of a made-for-TV movie based on Barbarians at the Gate, 1990's best-seller by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar on the RJR Nabisco takeover battle, have one key role to fill before filming ...Mon, 18 Nov 1991 05:01:00 ESTTHE DEAL OF THE DECADE HAD NO HEROES The RJR Nabisco buyout was drama enough for two books, and nobody comes out of either lookihttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/02/26/73106/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/02/26/73106/index.htmWhich kind of man is Ross Johnson: a greedy, political bastard, or a greedy, talented manager? For a contrast of judgments and just about everything else, see the two new books about the Great RJR ...Mon, 26 Feb 1990 05:01:00 ESTTHE $600 MILLION CIGARETTE SCAM By stocking up wholesalers with more smokes than they could promptly resell, RJR Nabisco createdhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/12/04/72829/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/12/04/72829/index.htmIT LOOKED LIKE just one more announcement in a year of many. In September, RJR Nabisco declared that it would end the practice in domestic cigarette distribution known as trade loading. A startling...Mon, 04 Dec 1989 05:01:00 ESTTHE CEO'S SECOND WIFE Yes, she's typically younger than the first. Often she has a career of her own. But her primary job is remhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/08/28/72407/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/08/28/72407/index.htmHis temper might perhaps be a little soured by finding, like many others of his sex, that through some unaccountable bias in favor of beauty, he was the husband of a very silly woman; but she knew ...Mon, 28 Aug 1989 04:01:00 EDTFORTUNE magazine contents page JANUARY 2, 1989 VOL. 119, NO. 1 http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/02/71496/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/02/71496/index.htmSPECIAL REPORT/ Cover Stories 32 THE 25 MOST FASCINATING BUSINESS PEOPLE OF 1988 Remarkable in all sorts of ways, the men -- and one woman -- on this list are above all bold, willing to take risks ...Mon, 02 Jan 1989 05:01:00 EST'GREED REALLY TURNS ME OFF' Henry Kravis tells how his firm won the RJR Nabisco deal, how safe an investment it is, and why Washhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/02/71449/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/02/71449/index.htmFORGET about red-rimmed eyes. It is midmorning, a few hours since Henry Kravis won the $25 billion battle for RJR Nabisco, and his eyes seem red all over. Sipping constantly from a glass of water, ...Mon, 02 Jan 1989 05:01:00 ESTLBOS GREED, GOOD BUSINESS -- OR BOTH? The outcry over these deals reflects way too much hysteria and far too little understandinhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/02/71451/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/01/02/71451/index.htmYES, there is some reason to be concerned about the pace and size of leveraged buyouts. The trend toward leverage, not only in LBOs but also in takeovers and on the balance sheets of ordinary compa...Mon, 02 Jan 1989 05:01:00 ESTDIRECTORS ON THE SPOThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/12/05/71372/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/12/05/71372/index.htmThese are wrenching times for corporate directors. The current surge of takeovers, leveraged buyouts, and recapitalizations has put directors' decisions under a brighter spotlight than ever before....Mon, 05 Dec 1988 05:01:00 ESTWHO WINS IN THE HUGEST DEALS? Philip Morris wants to grow by takeover, RJR Nabisco wants to shrink by going private. Wildly diffhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/11/21/71298/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/11/21/71298/index.htmTHE TOBACCO industry. What a strange place for corporate America to fight out the nature of its future. Who could imagine such a clear, almost ideological clash of strategies? Such strikingly diver...Mon, 21 Nov 1988 05:01:00 ESTFORTUNE Magazine contents page JULY 18, 1988 VOL. 118, NO. 2 http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/07/18/70817/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/07/18/70817/index.htmCORPORATE PERFORMANCE Cover Story Mon, 18 Jul 1988 04:01:00 EDTTHE TOUGH COOKIE AT RJR NABISCO In two mergers, Ross Johnson went through the revolving door last and came out first. An enemy ohttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/07/18/70798/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/07/18/70798/index.htmGEE WHIZ, you say to yourself: Just how hard is it to run one of those big FORTUNE 500 companies? Let's ask F. Ross Johnson, 58, the boss at RJR Nabisco Inc., the multibillion-dollar food and cigar...Mon, 18 Jul 1988 04:01:00 EDTTHE BIGGEST BOSSES 34. ROSS JOHNSON RJR NABISCO A HANDY GUY WITH A RAZORhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/03/69355/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/03/69355/index.htmWhen Ross Johnson, then running Nabisco Brands, was arranging the 1985 sale of his company to RJ Reynolds Industries, he thought about the reasons to go ahead: RJR was a good place for Nabisco mana...Mon, 03 Aug 1987 04:01:00 EDTCOVER THE YEAR'S 50 MOST FASCINATING BUSINESS PEOPLE ROSS JOHNSON A KNACK FOR ENDING UP ON TOPhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/01/05/68490/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/01/05/68490/index.htmYOU'D THINK that I can't hold a job,'' says Ross Johnson. ''I've had about five titles in ten years. I have no real talents -- no functional talents, that is.'' For a no-talent executive, Johnson, ...Mon, 05 Jan 1987 05:01:00 ESTTHE YEAR'S 50 MOST FASCINATING BUSINESS PEOPLE ROSS JOHNSON A KNACK FOR ENDING UP ON TOPhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/01/05/66851/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/01/05/66851/index.htmYOU'D THINK that I can't hold a job,'' says Ross Johnson. ''I've had about five titles in ten years. I have no real talents -- no functional talents, that is.'' For a no-talent executive, Johnson, ...Sun, 05 Jan 1986 05:01:00 EST