Oil CEOs: High Prices, Fat Paychecks
As consumers around the world struggle to fill their gas tanks, captains of the oil industry are getting a raise. Starting with info provided by Capi...
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Global Poverty: More Big Business is Not the Solution
Robert Weissman | Posted 05.08.2008 | Business
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By most accounts, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is genuinely passionate about reducing global poverty. But he is not willing to challenge corporations and structures that generate that poverty.
The CEO Presidency
Bob Burnett | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
In 2000, when George W. Bush first ran for President, one of his selling points was the claim he would be America's first "CEO President." Of course,...
Want Results? Engage!
Roger Fransecky | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business
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Leaders like Roger Penske derive a lot of energy from interaction, from engagement with people and with the rich invitation of learning something new each day.
Time For Bank CEOs Who Blew It To Step Down
Henry Blodget | Posted 04.15.2008 | Business
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Unless forcefully shown the doors, CEOs seem to show no willingness to accept real responsibility when things go bad.
Former Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons: Media World Divided Into "Suits" And "Talent"
First Thirty Days | Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 03.18.2008 | Media
First Thirty Days' Ariane de Bonvoisin interviewed former Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons, who stepped down officially in January and was succeeded by Je...
Who Needs Hair? Not CEOs
USA Today | Del Jones | Posted 03.14.2008 | Business
CEOs seem to instinctively know that it's better to be authoritative than indecisive. They know about the vision thing and the passion thing. They eve...
The Edge: Activision's CEO On His Merger, The Future Of Video Games, And CEOs In The White House
Huffington Post | Posted 03.04.2008 | Business
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In December 2007, entertainment powerhouses Activision and Vivendi announced a merger that would put them atop the heap in the video game business. T...
Secrets Revealed: The New York Times and Wall Street Journal Declare "Timing is Everything" in M&A
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 02.29.2008 | Media
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Perhaps it was just a case of bad timing. Last Tuesday, Andrew Ross Sorkin, lead M&A reporter at The New York Times, and Dennis Berman, his counterpa...
Just Listen To Me!
Roger Fransecky | Posted 02.26.2008 | Business
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As leaders (and parents) we need a Field Guide to understand Generation Y, the indulged, tattooed, pierced and impatient 24-29 year olds who seem to have no sense of boundaries and expectations.
AIG's Debt Problems Could Land CEO In Hot Water
CNBC | Charlie Gasparino | Posted 02.11.2008 | Business
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American International Group's disclosure that its losses from risky debt may be billions of dollars more than previously reported could eventually pu...
Stressed CEOs Drink Three Bottles Of Wine A Week
Independent | Martin Hickman | Posted 01.23.2008 | Business
Chief executives of big companies and public sector organisations are coping with their stressful positions by drinking the equivalent of almost three...
Mitt Romney, Meg Whitman and the Failed CEO Campaign
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics
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Meg Whitman, Romney and their Fortune 500 crowd implied that their success at Bain, eBay, et al, would translate into a winning campaign. This has not happened. At all.
A Peaceful Revolution: Mind the Gap: The Female CEO
Irma D. Herrera | Posted 12.18.2007 | Living
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Having a woman boss with a say about pay, promotions, and work schedules is good for the women at all levels.
Citi Taps IBanking Head Pandit As CEO
AP | Madlen Read | Posted 12.11.2007 | Business
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Citigroup Inc. named Vikram Pandit, the head of its investment banking business, as its chief executive officer Tuesday, charging him with restoring t...
Women Execs Reluctant To Back Hillary
Wall Street Journal | MONICA LANGLEY | Posted 12.08.2007 | Business
She's the ultimate professional woman. So you'd think Hillary Clinton's biggest source of support would be other alpha females. But as the New York s...
CEOs Who Need To Return To Business School
24/7 Wall Street | Douglas A. McIntyre | Posted 11.30.2007 | Business
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Looking around the wreckage of some of the big cap companies it is not hard to find a few CEOs who probably need to go back to business school. Wall S...
What CEOs Can Learn from Oprah's Sex Abuse Scandal
Joan Stewart | Posted 11.19.2007 | Business
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Winfrey handled the sexual abuse scandal so quickly, thoroughly and deftly that there's nothing more for anyone to say.
Sextet Kittens
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 11.16.2007 | Business
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Stan O'Neal,
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Fortune and the rest of the media won't stop regularly anointing new CEOs geniuses as they tumble from the sky.
Know Your Slight Weird Facts About Very Wealthy Wall Streeters
The Deal | Yvette Kantrow | Posted 11.12.2007 | Business
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Losses are mounting. CEOs are quitting. Bonuses are plummeting. And here's what we've learned about what's going on on Wall Street these days from rea...
Obesity Epidemic Among CEO Pay
Eve Tahmincioglu | Posted 11.01.2007 | Business
Now we have other institutions thinking they should be following big businesses' lead and pony up big bucks for their head honchos.
Edwards Gets Tough With Corporate America
Wall Street Journal | Susan Davis | Posted 10.26.2007 | Business
John Edwards is targeting Corporate America and what he argues are its corrupt and greedy practices. In a speech today in Des Moines, Iowa, he is outl...
CEOs Say They're Overpaid (Seriously)
USA Today's On Deadline Blog | Michael Winter | Posted 10.15.2007 | Business
No, not a misprint, and it's not April Fools' Day either. That's the conclusion of a survey of U.S. business leaders, the Financial Times tells us. T...
America's Youngest CEOs
Forbes | MATTHEW KIRDAHY | Posted 10.12.2007 | Business
In case you haven't noticed, the stereotypical image of a silver-haired 50-something chief executive wearing a perfectly dimpled necktie is fading. T...
Bush's 'Rangers', CEOs, Switching Sides To Dems in '08 Race
Bloomberg | Michael Janofsky | Posted 09.21.2007 | Home
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Dozens of corporate executives who backed President George W. Bush for re-election in 2004, including some of his top fund-raisers, are now helping De...
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