TOKYO — When Naomi Koshi was elected in June to the board of one of Japan’s largest telecommunications companies, she became one of the few women in the country to reach the top of the corporate ladder...
When Hubert Joly took over Best Buy in 2012, the electronics retailer was struggling to compete with Amazon, discount retailers like Walmart and a broad shift away from brick-and-mortar shopping. Sales and profits were sagging, and the stock price had cratered...
Fidji Simo, the leader of Facebook’s eponymous app, said on Thursday that she was leaving the social network to become the chief executive of Instacart, the on-demand grocery start-up that is preparing to become a public company...
In the latest shareholder lawsuit, a pension fund accused executives at Emergent BioSolutions of insider trading. The company, under investigation by Congress, has halted manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines at its Baltimore factory at regulators’ request...
Several Wall Street banks announced plans on Monday to increase dividends and buy back their stock as the economy rebounds from the coronavirus pandemic...
An activist investment firm won a shocking victory at Exxon Mobil. But can new directors really put the oil giant on a cleaner path?...
The gap between workers and C.E.O.s widened during the pandemic as public companies granted top executives some of the richest pay packages ever...
The latest version of a multiyear analysis of Fortune 100 and 500 companies found that white women made some gains but that true representation is decades away...
Exxon Mobil’s defeat by a new activist investor, Engine No. 1, at its annual meeting on Wednesday is still reverberating around Wall Street...
A Dutch court ruled Wednesday that Royal Dutch Shell, Europe’s largest oil company, must accelerate its efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to tackle climate change...
Despite posting robust revenue and earnings during the pandemic of the past year, executives at McDonald’s are likely to face tough questions at Thursday’s annual shareholder meeting from critics who believed they mishandled the dismissal of the former chief executive Steve Easterbrook...
AT&T just announced that it will combine its WarnerMedia division — the home of HBO and CNN, built from its $85 billion takeover of Time Warner in 2016 — with Discovery...
Should some workers be paid more than others? How much more? What factors should determine an employee's pay? ...
Executives across corporate America, from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, have begun to heed calls from investors to disclose more about their companies’ actions on climate change and work force diversity. Warren E. Buffett isn’t among them...
The Times’s David Gelles gives DealBook the backstory to his recent front-page article about rising C.E.O. pay during the pandemic...
Emmanuel Faber, the chairman and chief executive of the French consumer group Danone, abruptly left the company on Monday under pressure from activist investors...
The OxyContin maker filed its long-awaited restructuring plan in bankruptcy court. Revenue from the new company would go exclusively to abating the opioid crisis...
Some companies are reluctant to let lower-level managers become outside directors, adding a systemic impediment to the push...
Andrew here. Let’s have an honest conversation about the mania around GameStop — and its larger implications...
When Goldman Sachs announced that it would help companies go public only if they had at least one diverse board member — meaning that the bank wouldn’t work with I.P.O. hopefuls whose directors were all white men — it was met with a mix of support and skepticism. In the year since, with less fanfare, the bank has also built up a business to help recruit directors for those boards, which has expanded to cover public companies as well...
It was a difficult year for deal makers to describe. Early on, the pandemic made the notion of corporate takeovers seem, for a few months, like something from a lost era. But then came a burst of activity like few had ever seen before, even as the health crisis raged...
But Airbnb has a different, potentially thornier problem. Even if you never use Airbnb, you still might hate it because renters at the house next door throw loud parties or your quiet town is overrun by tourists each weekend...
In one of the largest restaurant deals in more than a decade, Dunkin’ will join some of America’s best-known restaurant chains, including Arby’s and Buffalo Wild Wings, under a single privately held owner...
Dunkin’ Brands, the parent company of the Dunkin’ and Baskin Robbins chains, is in talks to sell itself to a private equity-backed company, Inspire Brands...