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Most Embarrassing CEO Quotes Of 2011

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.20.2011

What with Occupy Wall Street and all, CEOs may be under even more scrutiny than usual this year. So it's fitting that there's been no shortage of nota...

Tony Hayward, Ex-British Petroleum CEO, Set To Return To Oil Industry

Posted 11.06.2011

LONDON (Tom Bergin) - Tony Hayward, who stepped down as BP (BP.L) boss in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, will imminently seal his retur...

BP's Profit Plummets As Company Struggles To Lift Production

AP | Robert Barr | Posted 09.25.2011

LONDON (AP) -- BP PLC on Tuesday reported lower than expected earnings for the second quarter as it struggled to lift production in the wake of the Gu...

Ink Spill: Inside the Battle to Shape the News Coverage of Last Year's Oil Gusher

Sean_Smith | Posted 09.13.2011

Sean_Smith

One year ago on Friday, the runaway oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was capped, ending one of the longest-running and most popular reality news shows in American history. I had a front row seat to that show.

Former BP Chief Tony Hayward Under Fire

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 08.31.2011

JACKSON, Miss. — Under questioning from the Justice Department and plaintiffs suing the oil giant he once ran, Tony Hayward fought off accusatio...

Commodity Trader Glencore Aims For High IPO

Posted 06.14.2011

HONG KONG/LONDON (Elzio Barreto and Clara Ferreira-Marques) - Top commodity trader Glencore aims to raise up to $12.1 billion with a dual listing ...

U.S. Approves First Deepwater Drilling Permit In Gulf Since BP Spill

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — The U.S. has approved the first deepwater drilling permit in the Gulf of Mexico since BP's massive oil spill. The Bureau of Ocean Ener...

What Obama Should Tell the Chamber of Commerce

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Peter Dreier

President Barack Obama will walk across Lafayette Park on Monday to address the United States Chamber of Commerce at its headquarters. What should he tell them?

The Imperfect Storm

Michael Brune | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Brune

President Obama's independent commission has painstakingly examined what led to the Gulf disaster. And it's no dry recital of facts. It presents a storm of imperfection.

2010: A Shellacking in Poor Judgment and Bad Behavior

Jim Lichtman | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Lichtman

Our grandparents and great-grandparents lived through a Great Depression with grit and resolve. Unlike many of today's citizenry, who have become a whiny group of rage-a-holics.

Goldman's Massive Bonuses 'Totally Deserved,' Says Satan

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Andy Borowitz

In a rare press conference, the usually reclusive Prince of Darkness defended Goldman's bonuses today, inviting reporters to meet with him at his apartment in New York's Trump Tower.

Reinvention, Part II

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Marian Salzman

This is the seventh in a series of 12 posts expounding on the 2011 forecasts in the annual trends report from Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwid...

Jason Linkins

Tony Hayward, Former BP CEO, Addresses Cambridge Union, Says More Dumb Things

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Last night, former BP CEO Tony Hayward addressed the students of Cambridge University at the Cambridge Union Society, about that whole "destroying the...

Jason Linkins

Hayward: BP Was Unprepared For 'Media Scrutiny'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Former BP CEO Tony Hayward should really think about heeding advice to "really just stop talking." But talk he has, and so we've all learned a whole bunch of new things about the guy who's really, really sorry about that whole catastrophic oil gusher thingy. For instance, we now know that if he had to do it all over again, he would have totally gone yachting, and, like all yachtsmen, he only took to the high seas as a means of tamping down all of the anger he was feeling.

Ousted CEO Admits BP Unprepared For Gulf Oil Spill: 'We Were Making It Up Day To Day'

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — Former BP PLC chief Tony Hayward has acknowledged that the company was unprepared for the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the m...

Who was the Dirtiest Polluter This Year? I'd say BP

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Josh Nelson

As you may have heard by now, Repower America is currently accepting votes for our 2010 Snake Oil Awards. The idea is to identify the dirtiest opponen...

Rand Paul on BP & Head Stomper: Accidents Happen

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

Katie Halper

It is so touching to see Rand Paul put his neck out for the little guy against the man, Obama, who is so unAmerican he guilt trips BP, as if BP didn't already feel bad enough!

Is Russia Riding to BP's Rescue?

Stephen Blank | Posted 05.25.2011

Stephen Blank

Driving BP into a corner is neither sound business nor sound foreign policy.

10 New Careers Tony Hayward Would Be Great At

buzzfeed.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Now that Tony Hayward is stepping down as the CEO of BP, he'll have to find some new way to spend his time and his $17 million pension. Here are 10 ne...

A Look Back At Tony Hayward's Legacy

AP | JANE WARDELL | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — Two decades ago, Tony Hayward was a "turtle" – one of a handful of young high fliers at BP earmarked for great things, named after the ca...

Ousted BP CEO Tony Hayward: I Was 'Demonized' In The U.S.

Posted 05.25.2011

BP CEO Tony Hayward, who announced yesterday that he will step down from his post in October, made some potentially damaging comments to the British p...

Bob Dudley BP's New CEO? American Expected To Take Reigns

AP | HARRY R. WEBER and DANICA KIRKA | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — BP is jettisoning CEO Tony Hayward, whose verbal blunders made the oil giant's image even worse as it struggled to contain the Gulf oil...

Tony Hayward: BP's Safety Record Is 'Better Than The Industry Average'

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — Outgoing BP CEO Tony Hayward defended his company's safety record Wednesday in the face of questions from British lawmakers, and said t...

Diane Wilson, BP Protester, Interrupts Hearing To Urge Criminal Charges Over Oil Spill

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — A woman disrupted a House hearing just as BP CEO executive Tony Hayward began his testimony. The woman, identified as Diane Wilson...

BP Stock Back Up Despite Talk Of Suspending Dividend

AP | By ROBERT BARR | Posted 05.25.2011

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