When Jack Welch died on March 1, 2020, tributes poured in for the longtime chief executive of General Electric, whom many revered as the greatest chief executive of all time.David […]
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Back to news home1MDB Trial Set to Begin for Ex-Goldman Banker Roger Ng
The global scandal over the looting of a big Malaysian infrastructure fund nearly a decade ago — a crime that tarnished the reputation of one of Wall Street’s premier banks […]
SoftBank’s Woes Are Mounting
For the past decade, SoftBank and its founder, Masayoshi Son, grabbed headlines mainly for the Japanese conglomerate’s eye-popping investments, becoming a fixture in the American technology scene by spending freely […]
The New Get-Rich-Faster Job in Silicon Valley: Crypto Start-Ups
OAKLAND, Calif. — When Sandy Carter left her job as a vice president of Amazon’s cloud computing unit this month, she announced in a LinkedIn post that she was joining […]
Steve Easterbrook, Former McDonald’s C.E.O., Repays Company $105 Million
Mr. Easterbrook initially decided to fight the lawsuit, and his lawyers filed a motion to dismiss, calling it “meritless and misleading.”Updated Dec. 16, 2021, 12:46 p.m. ETBut with his agreement to […]
Behind Elon Musk’s Twitter Poll Is a Tax Bill Coming Due
Elon Musk may have already been compelled to sell a sizable portion of his Tesla shares even if he hadn’t issued an unusual Twitter pledge over the weekend. Mr. Musk […]
Hedge Fund’s Insiders Agree to Pay as Much as $7 Billion to I.R.S.
A yearslong dispute between a pioneering hedge fund and the Internal Revenue Service ended Thursday with an enormous bill for taxes and penalties: as much as $7 billion.James Simons, a […]
Huge Paydays for C.E.O.s, as Gap With Workers Widened
Shareholders opposing the compensation won a say-on-pay vote at the company, and a majority also withheld votes from a director on the board’s compensation committee. Under Paycom’s governance guidelines, the […]
Global Shortages During Coronavirus Reveal Failings of Just in Time Manufacturing
In the story of how the modern world was constructed, Toyota stands out as the mastermind of a monumental advance in industrial efficiency. The Japanese automaker pioneered so-called Just In […]
Booming Stock Market Helps California Bounce Back from Pandemic
In the early days of the pandemic, no one would have looked to the stock market for salvation. From February to late March last year, the S&P 500 suffered one […]