But their idea of one-stop shopping involves not just a collection of different legal specialties, but advice on business strategy, financing, management, computer systems and personnel as well.

ECONOMIST: The battle of the Atlantic

He popularised frequent-flyer programmes, computer-reservation systems and the yield-management systems that tell airlines how much to charge for particular seats.

ECONOMIST: American Airlines loses its pilot

Risk management has suffered, partly from the difficulty in merging computer systems.

ECONOMIST: Beneath that healthy exterior

After experience with early hand- held calculators at Rockwell International, with the first consumer video tape recorder at Cartridge Television, and with the original computer controlled video editing systems at CMX Systems, a CBS-Memorex joint venture, he began his own management consulting business in 1974.

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