Management Be Nimble
When Dominic Orr, the chief executive of Aruba Networks, said those words, he crystallized a goal I had heard many leaders express during the hundreds of interviews I’ve conducted for the Corner...
View ArticleGates Foundation Selects New Chief Executive
Opinion » A Global Standard for High Schools Room for Debate asks whether American secondary schools should offer the rigorous International Baccalaureate program. Source Article from...
View ArticleNew G.M. Chief Is Company Woman, Born to It
And ever since she was a child, Mary T. Barra aspired to join the family business and make her mark in the rugged, automobile industry. At 18, she did just that, entering a G.M. technical school to...
View ArticleG.M. Names First Female Chief Executive
The elevation of Ms. Barra, 51, to the chief executive post is the latest dramatic change at the top of General Motors since its bailout by the federal government in 2009. G.M., the nation’s largest...
View ArticleG.M. Names First Female Chief Executive
The elevation of Ms. Barra, 51, to the chief executive post is the latest dramatic change at the top of General Motors since its bailout by the federal government in 2009. G.M., the nation’s largest...
View ArticleTakeda Hires Glaxo Executive for a Top Post
The move is the latest in a spate of outside hires by Japanese corporations seeking to compete on a global scale, although the strategy to employ top foreign talent has not always ended well. Takeda,...
View ArticleBusiness Briefing | Company News: Wellcare Fires Its Chief and Announces...
The board of the insurer WellCare Health Plans fired its chief executive, Alec R. Cunningham, replacing him temporarily with its recently appointed chairman, David J. Gallitano, while it searches for...
View ArticleVandeHei, Politico Editor, Is Made Chief Executive
Robert Allbritton, the owner and publisher of both news sites, announced the appointment on Sunday in an internal memorandum that said that Mr. VandeHei would run the business operations of Politico,...
View ArticleLetters: A New Barometer for Executive Pay
To the Editor: In “A Better Way to Compare C.E.O. Pay” (Fair Game, Sept. 22), Gretchen Morgenson described a system to better define the peer groups on which companies base the compensation of their...
View ArticleThe Chatter for Sunday, August 25
“There will be less opinion, less yelling and fewer celebrity sightings.” Ehab Al Shihabi, acting chief executive of Al Jazeera America, a new cable channel created specifically for consumers in the...
View ArticleWeight Watchers’ $tarvation diet
Weight Watchers International yesterday named a new chief executive and reported that its second-quarter net income fell 16 percent as the company took costs related to the early extinguishment of...
View ArticlePC Industry Fights to Adapt as Tablets Muscle In
Like the mainframe, which was said to be dead decades ago but has remained a meaningful business, the PC will almost certainly cheat death. True, mobile devices like the iPad will continue to gore PC...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Posts Tepid Results and Expects More of the Same
The chain, the world’s biggest by sales, reported a lower-than-expected profit for the second quarter and said it expected global same-restaurant sales in July to be relatively flat. Its shares closed...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Posts Tepid Results and Expects More of the Same
The chain, the world’s biggest by sales, reported a lower-than-expected profit for the second quarter and said it expected global same-restaurant sales in July to be relatively flat. Its shares closed...
View ArticleNews Analysis: The Challenge of Creating a Unified Organizational Strategy
To be clear, it is hard to do. The default behavior for human beings is to think in terms of tribes. If you work in a small department in a big company, you’re naturally going to identify most closely...
View ArticlePhilip Caldwell Is Dead at 93; First Nonfamily Member to Head Ford
. The cause was complications of a stroke, his family said. Mr. Caldwell was known as a prodigious worker with a knack for restoring floundering divisions of Ford to financial health. He guided the...
View ArticleBits Blog: Rich Payday for New Zynga Chief
Don Mattrick ran Microsoft’s Xbox business. Zynga tossed in a $5 million signing bonus for him to become its new chief executive. There is nothing virtual about the currency that Zynga’s new chief...
View ArticleDealBook: Talk of Takeover Grows at Health Management Hospital Group
Ever since the chief executive of Health Management Associates, the for-profit hospital system, abruptly announced nearly three weeks ago that he would be leaving to lead a religious mission in South...
View ArticleDealBook: R.B.S. Faces Doubts About Its Direction
Matt Dunham/Associated PressOffices of the Royal Bank of Scotland in London. 11:41 a.m. | Updated LONDON – The abrupt exit of the head of the Royal Bank of Scotland has raised pointed questions about...
View ArticleWorld Briefing: Chief Executive Linked to I.M.F. Official Faces Inquiry
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