Fast-Track Kids

More than 100 interviews were conducted with business schools, executive recruiters, and executives to establish a profile of the new young corporate climber. As they arrived in the corporate world, there was a vast upheaval of takeovers, mergers, restructuring, and spinoffs, and the new ''whiz kids'' have little sense of corporate loyalty. Instead of security they are looking for autonomy, power, and a chance to accomplish something, and they are impatient to obtain that chance. Michael D. White, 34, left a 10-year consulting career with Arthur Andersen & Co. and Bain & Co. to take a job as vice-president for strategic planning with Avon Products Inc. He is charged with enhancing Avon's fragrance and cosmetics business. In 2 years as distribution director at Pillsbury Co., Becky Roloff, another of the ''fast-track kids,'' transformed the department. Included are profiles of 50 of the most promising of the 35 and under group.