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After building cars for more than 40 years, Harold A. Poling, the former chairman of Ford, is taking on a new job. Mr. Poling, once an avid pilot, will announce […]

Passengers who fly economy class may soon find the back of the plane a little more comfortable -- if they can find seats. In the first widespread change in the […]

Representatives of the Boeing Company and its striking engineers and technical workers are expected to meet separately with federal mediators this week amid signs that tension between the two groups […]

Like many other airline passengers, Michael Gallagher has gone out of his way to avoid flying a turboprop plane. When he attended an Orbital Sciences shareholder meeting a few years […]

More than 16,000 engineers and technical workers at the Boeing Company went on strike yesterday after contract negotiations broke down over wages and health care coverage. The walkout, only the […]

The battle for the premium-fare passenger, in which airlines offer luxury more typical of a cruise ship, has risen to this: One major airline will later this year introduce private […]

When the announcement came last month that Novartis would sell its agricultural division, few analysts were surprised. But it had to be a bittersweet moment for Daniel Vasella, the chairman […]

Benefiting from heavy cost-cutting, the Boeing Company said yesterday that its fourth-quarter profit jumped 42 percent, far outpacing most Wall Street estimates. Boeing, the world's largest plane maker, reported fourth-quarter […]

When the announcement came last month that Novartis would sell its agricultural division, few analysts were surprised. But it had to be a bittersweet moment for Daniel Vasella, the chairman […]

Benefiting from heavy cost-cutting, the Boeing Company said yesterday that its fourth-quarter profit jumped 42 percent, far outpacing most Wall Street estimates. Boeing, the world's largest plane maker, reported fourth-quarter […]

COFFEE? Tea? Intermediate-term bond funds? As if airlines did not face enough competition from fare wars, a few carriers are now venturing into one of the most competitive businesses around […]

COFFEE? Tea? Intermediate-term bond funds? As if airlines did not face enough competition from fare wars, a few carriers are now venturing into one of the most competitive businesses around […]

Faced with rising labor and fuel costs, the UAL Corporation, the parent company of United Airlines, said yesterday that its 2000 earnings were likely to be as much as 28 […]

Faced with rising labor and fuel costs, the UAL Corporation, the parent company of United Airlines, said yesterday that its 2000 earnings were likely to be as much as 28 […]

Continuing a week of Wall Street disappointments, Lucent Technologies Inc., the maker of telecommunications equipment, said yesterday that its first-quarter sales and earnings would fall well short of analysts' expectations. […]

Continuing a week of Wall Street disappointments, Lucent Technologies Inc., the maker of telecommunications equipment, said yesterday that its first-quarter sales and earnings would fall well short of analysts' expectations. […]

Even deep-pocketed executives stumble in buying the right Christmas gift for their spouses. Al Piergallini, head of worldwide consumer health at Novartis in Summit, N.J., acknowledges having even more trouble […]

The American Home Products Corporation agreed late Tuesday to pay $350 million to settle 1,400 injury cases brought in Mississippi over its diet drug combination fen-phen, a liability that could […]

Americans who have complaints about the health care system may soon be in luck -- or maybe not. Many health care professionals expect the medical system in the United States […]

Americans who have complaints about the health care system may soon be in luck -- or maybe not. Many health care professionals expect the medical system in the United States […]

Continuing in its string of recent public misfortunes, Abbott Laboratories Inc. said yesterday that it was abandoning its $7.3 billion acquisition of the Alza Corporation because of antitrust opposition from […]

In a move that could touch off investor interest in airline stocks, the AMR Corporation said yesterday that it would spin off its 83 percent stake in the Sabre Holdings […]

AMERICANS, who have always looked at supermarkets as cornucopias of calories, are increasingly finding fare of a different kind in the grocery aisles. Stacked in the rows of margarines, breakfast […]

AstraZeneca P.L.C. and Novartis A.G., the world's two largest drug companies, plan to merge their troubled agricultural divisions and spin them off in a deal valued at more than $15 [...]

Pfizer stepped up its effort Tuesday to acquire Warner-Lambert, beginning its attempt to oust the company's board and outlining what it sees as the advantages of the hostile takeover to […]

In what is becoming one of the drug industry's nastiest takeover battles, Warner-Lambert released some confidential details yesterday of its agreement with Pfizer to co-promote Lipitor, a successful cholesterol-lowering drug. […]

The chairman of Novartis A.G. of Switzerland said today that he now had no intention of making a hostile bid for American Home Products, but added that the fate of […]

Executives from three of Europe's largest drug companies are predicting that Pfizer will not only win the battle for Warner-Lambert but that the combination of the two companies could touch […]

While it remains the highest offer, Pfizer Inc.'s bid for the Warner-Lambert Company lost some of its appeal yesterday. Pfizer's stock slipped 6.7 percent, and so did the value of […]

Hours after executives of the American Home Products Corporation and the Warner-Lambert Company announced a $70 billion merger agreement yesterday, Pfizer Inc. tried to break up the deal with an […]

American Home Products and Warner-Lambert said early today that they had agreed to merge in a deal that would form the world's largest drug company. The deal, valued at about […]

If the world's largest pharmaceutical companies were to choose a theme to accompany this week's third-quarter earnings announcements, it might be 'Let the Good Times Roll.' Pfizer, maker of the […]

Despite the seemingly endless rise in asthma cases, new treatments for the disease have been noticeably slow in coming. Within the past two years, for example, three new drugs have […]

A year ago, the chief executives of the nation's largest generic drug makers seemed almost giddy. Generic versions of popular drugs were coming to market with ease, and investors clamored […]

The American Home Products Corporation agreed yesterday to pay $3.75 billion in total to thousands of people who contend they were injured by taking the popular diet pill combination fen-phen. […]

AS chief executive of Novartis A.G., the world's largest drug company, Dr. Daniel Vasella hoists his leather satchel onto a board-room table and flashes a wide grin. Many chief executives […]

The call came in around midnight, and Leeza Tander-Tostenson, a personal assistant to a handful of Hollywood luminaries, knew who was calling. A client, a sometimes testy entertainment mogul, was […]

For the last two years, Wall Street analysts have worried that the American Home Products Corporation would have to pay too much to settle lawsuits from people who claimed they […]

American Home Products Corporation has offered to pay more than $4 billion to settle lawsuits filed by consumers who contend they were injured by taking fen-phen, a once-popular diet-pill combination […]

In a move that was praised by a family planning organization, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. recently instructed its pharmacists to fill all prescriptions or refer customers to another store if they […]

Six years ago, when Pandora Singleton founded a support group for H.I.V.-positive women in Savannah, Ga., drug executives rarely knocked on her door to offer financing or information about the […]

After several years of litigation, the American Home Products Corporation said yesterday that it had agreed to offer cash settlements to about 36,000 women who contended that they had not […]

In a move that could leave Canada with only one major airline, a Canadian conglomerate, with the help of American Airlines' parent company, offered $3.8 billion in cash, stock and […]

REMEMBER what last year was like for investors in drug stocks? People who bought Schering-Plough's shares in January 1998 saw their investment surge 77.8 percent by year-end. Even one of […]

A YEAR ago, nearly everyone in the pharmaceutical industry was talking about Viagra, the tiny blue impotency fighter from Pfizer. Not only did Viagra appear in millions of medicine cabinets […]

DOCTORS are accustomed to offices crowded with patients, but in the last several weeks, salespeople from Merck and Monsanto have also been vying for their attention to promote new arthritis […]

Wounded by dismal sales growth in the United States, Glaxo Wellcome P.L.C., the world's third-largest pharmaceutical company, announced yesterday that it would not meet its sales and earnings projections for […]