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The article discusses highlights of the November 2022 Fortune Chief Executive Officers (CEO) Initiative forum held in Palm Beach, Florida. Topics explored include the possibility of economic recession in 2023 noted by Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, the pledge made by firms to achieve net zero carbon emissions acknowledged by Marriott president Stephanie Linnartz, and issues concerning the Internet, privacy, and businesses addressed by Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg.

Reports on Internet marketplaces for business to business services. Prediction that B2B online sales will increase rapidly; Changed role of the Internet in business; Companies building their own exchange services such as Heritage Environmental Services, Intel, and Wal-Mart. INSET: Usinghte Web to Make Business Chemistry.

Focuses on the lack of profit growth that should result from the high economic activity spurred by the Internet. Correlation of high profitability with monopoly and economic stagnation, according to Adam Smith; Optimism based on the increase of corporate profits and stock prices; Failure of many companies to build high profits due to the high level of competition on the Internet.

Offers a look at several chief executive officers who have left traditional companies to lead Internet corporations. John Costello; Bob Bowman; Richard Nanula; George Shaheen; Others; Their compensation at their former jobs and their present jobs. INSET: Can Wolf Schmitt Save Value America?.

Discusses the possible competition between Microsoft Corp. and AOL Time Warner, in light of the proposed merger between America Online (AOL) and Time Warner. How both companies are preparing to compete for dominance in the Internet; History of relations between the two companies, including comments by Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Bill Gates that Microsoft would buy or bury AOL; AOL's success at avoiding Microsoft's business practices; Effect of a United States Justice Department antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft.

Discusses why the Internet is not truly a revolution in itself, but part of a series of technology-related revolutions. Why the Commercial Revolution was a true revolution; How the advent of the Internet can be compared to almost every major new product or technology since the 1850s; What makes a technological innovations truly crucial.

Discusses the acquisition of startup companies by established portals on the Internet. Advice to entrepreneurs from Paul Deninger, executive of Broadview International, a technology investment bank; How startups are being used to guage public interest in an idea or business plan; Why a portal buys a startup; Acquisition being a viable alternative to initial public offerings.

Focuses on Amazon.com and chief executive officer Jeff Bezos as of fall 1999. Plans of Bezos regarding the role of Amazon.com in the world of electronic commerce; The company's climb from an online bookseller to one of the largest retailers on the Web; Question of when the company will turn a profit; Influence of Bezos enthusiasm on people.

Discusses a growing trend among individuals in the United States who control their own stocks and stock trades. Statistics on households with stocks and the number of assets invested online; Trend the result of competition with traditional brokerage firms and brokers; History of online trading; Statistics on online trading, including the growth of the industry; Future directions of online trading.

Profiles the online trading company Knight/Trimark and its chief executive officer Kenneth `Kenny,' Pasternak, as of 1999. History of the company; Statistics on its size and the number of online trades it controls; Changes in the industry; Knight/Trimark's stock; Worries concerning the company; Pasternak's earnings.

Profiles the company Internet Capital as of 1999. Its founders Walter Buckley and Ken Fox; Details of Internet Commerce's initial public offering; Its involvement in business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce; Statistics on B2B commerce in the United States; Predictions on the sector's growth; How Internet Commerce invests; Its business model.

Considers how the Internet will change the relationship between consumers and producers. Changes in retailing from the 1950s to the 1990s; Rate of Internet revenue growth; Impact on consumers expectations about convenience, speed, comparability, price and service; Inversion of the traditional logic of advertising; Declining importance of geography; Efficiency of Internet shopping; What it will take for businesses to succeed online.

Offers assessments of online equities from Henry Blodget, Jonathan Cohen, and Brian Oakes. Question of whether the stocks are in a bubble; Activity of K-tel International's stock; Other companies, including Yahoo, America Online, Infoseek, and Excite; Recommendation to invest cautiously.

Examines the use of World Wide Web sites by corporations, as of January 1, 1998. Reasons for corporations to use sites; Traits of best corporate sites; Numerous examples of corporate sites and their strategies; Lipton's Ragu pasta products; American Express; Betty Crocker; Retail sales on Internet; Problems with Internet sites; Sites that give things away; Information media; Virtual magazines.

Profiles Bernard Arnault, chief executive officer of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Biographical and career information; How Arnault intends to expand his company and use the Internet for financial gain; Statistics on his investments and various financial projects.

Discusses the effect of the Internet on Japan's economy as of January 2000. Various signs of the increasing prevalence of the Internet, including the growth of subscribers to cellular Internet service; The Internet as forcing a restructuring of Japan's economy; Estimates as to the savings the Internet could provide for Japanese industry; Nikkei index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) and its increase during 1999 in response to technology stocks; Various technology firms and their stock price increases during 1999, including Yahoo Japan.

Discusses the corporation Manheim Auctions, which owns the National Auto Dealers Exchange (NADE). Manheim Auctions as the largest operator of wholesale used-auto auctions in the world; Details of the company's business, which includes besides NADE, a growing Internet business to both dealers and consumers; Links between Manheim's e-business and traditional auctions; Predictions as to the future of Manheim's online sales.

Mentions ten big businesses that have established successful Web sites on the Internet. Petco; Southwest Airlines; Lands' End; Charles Schwab; Bertelsmann; W.W. Grainger; Ticketmaster; Office Depot; Fingerhut; U.S. Postal Service.

Focuses on the decrease in value of Internet stocks for the summer of 1999. Reasons, including rising interest rates, competition, oversupply and seasonality; Example of seasonality with the decreases in revenue growth during spring and summer months; Effects of the rapid growth of the Internet on the stocks' cyclical development; Comments from analysts; Outlook.

Focuses on distribution as a powerful force in media-related industries like the Internet. Realization by companies of the leverage they may have as masters of various chokepoints along the Internet; Break down of the distribution chain on the Internet that stretches from the consumer at one end to the Website or service at the other and including, device manufacturers; Operation-system vendors; Access-software vendors; Internet service providers; Hosts; Search sites.

Focuses on the issue of investment in Internet stocks. Roller-coaster ride of stocks from October 1995 to October 1996; Why Internet stocks remain treacherous; Views of analysts on Netscape Communications, Check Point Software Technology, Security Dynamics, CNET, Marimba, VeriSign, WebTV Networks, Amazon.Com and @Home Network.

Presents the opinions of executives regarding how companies can improve the odds of getting returns from their Internet investments in a slowing economy. Comments of Greg Papadopoulos of Sun Microsystems, Terry Jones of Travelocity.com and Joe Liemandt of Trilogy, all of whom have been guest lecturers at Columbia University School of Business' Internet Financial Management Course.

Presents an essay on Internet businesses. Impact of the Internet on business; Thoughts on the difference between Internet companies and Industrial Age companies; Importance of innovation in Internet companies.

Discusses the impact that broadband Internet access has had in the workplace. Experience of advertising executive Christine Price with her dial-up connection; The faster work and greater flexibility broadband access allows; Ability to work at home afforded by fast connections; Assertions of some that instant Internet access makes them feel tied to their jobs, since they remain constantly accessible to clients.

Addresses the economic aspects of the Internet, as of September 2000. Various views of the Internet economy; How competition has changed, especially when making price comparisons; Value of new-economy technologies as creators of wealth and utility; Examples of successful companies.

Reports the author's experience at an electronic commerce conference in San Francisco, California. Types of people who attended the conference; Importance of escape and speed in starting an Internet venture; How retailers can use special features on their sites to attract buyers; Views of electronic business sites as fads among venture capitalists.

Discusses uncertainty in the United States over Internet stocks in 1999. The excitement over technology stocks in 1998; Why some of these stocks may be overvalued and some undervalued; Advice on how to choose those Internet stocks which will prove successful in the long run.

Focuses on Comdisco and the company's history, including its founding by Kenneth Pontikes. Stock prices as of 1999; Restructuring at the company; Possibility that Comdisco is a bargain Internet stock; How Comdisco accepts stock in startups in return for services; Estimate value of its portfolio; How Comdisco owns Prism Communication, which is building a nationwide digital network; Share price history.

Focuses on investments over the Internet and forecasts what investors can expect for the future. Subsidizing huge payoffs for Internet entrepreneurs and employees; How some economists think the Internet's low prices are helping stave off inflation; Comments of Scott Cook, founder and chairman of Intuit.

Focuses on the next wave of Internet investing and offers information on issues that must be resolved to create a profitable and sustainable business. Marginal impact; Importance of location; Bigger the market, more nitches.

Discusses electronic commerce. Internet as a technology that enables small businesses to compete against much larger rivals; Cost of a full-service Website for e-commerce transactions; E-commerce software tools and services designed for small businesses; Multiactive Software's ecBuilder; Companies like EarthLink, MindSpring and others; IBM's HomePage Creator for e-business; OnSale, eBay and other trading sites for online auction service; Challenges of Web commerce.

Discusses the risks of online investing. Benefits of the Internet for individual investors; Results of desensitization to investment risk; Complaints about online investing made to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); Need for investors to get the facts about a stock; Difference between a limit order and a market order; Opening two brokerage accounts; Avoiding simple mistakes.

Reports on the growing number of companies offering consumers the ability to purchase automobiles via the Internet. The successful initial public offerings of companies like Autoweb.com and Autobytel.com; Tips for investors and consumers concerning electronic commerce companies selling automobiles; Challenges faced all electronic commerce companies.

Discusses investment in Internet stocks. The supply-demand issue and impact on stock prices; Lockup restrictions as a way of preventing early selling of stock; Possible reasons for the volatility of high-technology stocks; Fears that insiders are dumping shares because they know some secret about a particular company; Investment tips.

Discusses the costs of doing business over the Internet. The cost of distribution deals with portal partners like America On Line (AOL), Yahoo or Excite; June 1998 deals between brokerage houses and AOL; Question of how much an online retailer should be willing to pay for high-profile distribution; Importance of comparing the costs of alternatives.

Discusses the rise in Internet stocks such as Infoseek, Excite, Yahoo, America Online (AOL), and Lycos. How Internet search engines are now called portals; The top four portals, and how they consistently rank among the ten busiest Websites; Why portal stocks will not continue to soar; Which portals consumers should consider if they want to pick a winner.

This article discusses a wireless Internet service called WiMax which the author claims is up to five times faster than conventional broadband services. This technology is currently available in Portland, Oregon, and Baltimore, Maryland, and is associated with Clearwire Corp. The author states that it would cost $30 per person to cover half of the U.S. population with a WiMax network.

Argues that many profitable Internet companies are perceived as unprofitable due mainly to their accounting practices. How accountants traditionally spread the costs of construction, marketing, and research over a number of years, thereby reducing a company's pretax profit by a lesser amount; Why new-economy companies are unable to capitalize on intangible investments the way old-economy companies do.

Offers recommendations for investment in Copper Mountain Networks. Details of the company's creation of the CopperEdge 200 Multi-Speed DSL Concentrator which delivers high-speed, or broadband, access to the Internet over copper telephone wires using digital subscriber line (DSL); Profits of the company and anticipated sales; Developments; Stock prices.

Considers changes which threaten the market dominance of Netscape Communications in the Internet market. The growth of Netscape's market share between November 1994 and November 1995; Where the company's biggest business is; Response from the company to its competition.

Advises entrepreneurs that they should wait before jumping on the Internet. Opinion that the Internet is a technological marvel, but stinks as a place to do business; Facts and myths about commercial use of the Internet; Why the Internet is useful for conducting business research and for communicating by E-mail; Using the Internet as a sales tool.