Gordon Bethune, chairman and chief executive officer of Continental Airlines

Gordon Bethune, chairman and chief executive officer of Continental Airlines In 1994, when Gordon Bethune took the reins at Continental Airlines in Houston, he found a dysfunctional company. The airline had endured two visits to the bankruptcy court in 11 years, and the scars from those ordeals...

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