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Last week, reports surfaced that after more than a year on the market, General Electric Co. finally managed to offload Crotonville, its storied...
Jamie Dimon has a lot to say. The JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO’s annual letter to shareholders, which was released on Monday, clocked in at just under...
Two battles have embroiled Bob Iger ever since he returned to Walt Disney Co. for his second stint as CEO — one against activist investor Nelson...
One of the most riveting pieces of entertainment coming out of Walt Disney Co. these days is its nail-biter of a proxy battle against activist...
Last week, Boeing Co.’s airline customers sent two clear messages when they asked to meet with the planemaker’s directors without its chief...
David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., was hoping to take a victory lap. On Friday, the firm released his annual letter to shareholders,...
A big powerful organization with a carefully manufactured image gets embroiled in a conspiracy theory about one of its most beloved and valuable brand...
There’s a new law of the land taking root in Silicon Valley: the more technology makes us laypeople replaceable, the more the technocrats building...
Howard Schultz officially stepped down as chief executive of Starbucks Corp. in March 2023. But with Schultz, you’re never really sure that he’s...
There’s a reason they call him the Oracle of Omaha. For decades now investors have pored over Warren Buffett’s annual letter to shareholders,...
The glass ceiling is still impenetrable, and the glass cliff is still perilously steep.That’s the takeaway from what’s been a maddening week for...
Wednesday’s shooting at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade, which killed one person and injured more than 20, was the 49th mass shooting this year....
Starbucks Corp.’s earnings miss on Tuesday was bleak but not shocking. Close watchers of the Seattle-based coffee chain had been preparing for...
When Michelle Gass assumed the top job at Kohl’s in 2018, it was a textbook case of CEO succession. The retail chain, like most companies, had...
Late last week, women across the US received one of their many annual reminders of just how much their work is undervalued. The Bureau of Labor...
After the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, corporate America undertook a collective virtue signaling. Many of the companies that were already...
When Bumble Inc. announced that its founder, Whitney Wolfe Herd, would step down as chief executive officer, analyst and press reports painted her as...
The hottest and most closely watched activist battle isn’t happening inside corporate America. It’s taking place at Harvard University, where Bill...
The US Department of Transportation announced on Monday that it had hit Southwest Airlines Co. with a $140 million fine for last year’s epic...
Bob Iger is tired. Exhausted and overwhelmed even. He has joked privately with friends that he’s not sure why he boomeranged back into the Walt...
For decades, the pinnacle of corporate America has been a notorious boys’ club. If you need proof, just note that, until recently, at any given time...
OpenAI’s power brokers seem to have decided that the quickest fix for last week’s dysfunction is to borrow a page from corporate America’s...
Charlie Munger, the longtime vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., who died on Tuesday at the age of 99, will be exalted for many things in the...
Customers at hundreds of Starbucks Corp. stores can expect a shot of labor activism along with their espresso this morning. Employees at the coffee...
Last Monday, I returned to work from maternity leave after having my second child. Getting back into the groove of doing my job has been the easy...