Papa John's founder John Schnatter said Tuesday that replacing CEO Steve Ritchie is a "step in the right direction" for the pizza chain...
Overstock CEO Partick Byrne has resigned from the e-commerce company after making controversial comments about his role in the "Deep State."..
It’s 2019, and a $47 billion company is going public with an all-male board of directors. WeWork’s parent known formally as the We Company disclosed who comprises its board in an initial public offering prospectus early on Wednesday. Among the seven members, not a single one is female. The company was most-recently valued privately at $47 billion although it’s unclear if they’ll receive the same price tag from the public markets...
The merger highlights a long effort to unite CBS and Viacom as the media companies seek to compete with giants like Disney...
Taco Bell's parent company Yum Brands on Monday said David Gibbs has been tapped as CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2020. Gibbs will be succeeding Greg Creed, who has been with Yum for 25 years...
Regulation Best Interest is the latest regulatory move in the debate over whether advisors and brokers should adhere to a "fiduciary standard."...
Anadarko Petroleum releases new financial details of its proposed combination with Occidental Petroleum that revealed its acquirer did not expect to generate enough cash to cover its shareholder payments until 2022. Activist investor Carl Icahn this month launched a campaign to unseat four Occidental directors...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday called on the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, Scott Gottlieb, to resign from Pfizer’s board of directors, saying the appointment months after leaving the agency “smacks of corruption.” “This kind of revolving door influence-peddling smacks of...
Scott Gottlieb, who stepped down as Food and Drug Administration Commissioner in April, will join Pfizer's board of directors, the company announced Thursday..
Carl Icahn ratcheted up his fight with Occidental Petroleum over its pending purchase of rival Anadarko Petroleum by calling for a special shareholder meeting where he hopes to win board seats...
Notorious "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli has reached a settlement with his former biopharmaceutical company Retrophin just weeks ago after he sued two company directors and its ex-general counsel from prison. Shkreli has dismissed his suit...
CBS and Viacom are expected to begin seriously discussing a merger after tomorrow's board meeting. The companies must agree on a number of leadership questions to get a deal done.
Callaway Golf soared in Thursday trading after longtime activist investor Jana Partners disclosed a 9.2% stake in the company...
Notorious 'pharma bro' Martin Shkreli, settled in to his new home in a federal prison in Pennsylvania, on Friday sued two directors and the ex-general counsel of Retrophin, accusing them of using fraud to oust him as head of the firm in 2014...
Wynn's board of directors said the company on Tuesday paid the state a $35 million fine as well as $500,000 assessed to CEO Matthew Maddox ahead of Friday's deadline to pay the fines or appeal...
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission says he plans to recommend the agency approve the $26.5 billion merger of wireless carriers T-Mobile US and Sprint, saying it’ll speed up 5G deployment in the U.S...
Bed Bath & Beyond's board of directors is now majority female, more diverse and younger. But its activist investors are worried they lack the relevant skills and retail experience they need to turn around the struggling retailer...
The deal is contingent upon Occidental Petroleum prevailing in its battle with Chevron to take over oil and gas driller Anadarko...
"Sometimes they reach an accommodation with management and it works, other times they get involved in proxy fights that distract the people running the show and the trade falls apart," the "Mad Money" host said...
Investor group CtW demanded changes to Uber’s board of directors ahead of the ride-hailing company’s anticipated IPO, saying on Wednesday its governance “falls short of best practices.”...
"We're sober about the fact that we still have a lot of wood to chop," says Ed Garden, GE board member and CIO of Nelson Peltz's Trian. Trian has been trying to affect change at GE ever since watching the onetime multibillion stake it took in October 2015 flounder...
Anadarko Petroleum, which agreed this month to sell itself to Chevron for $33 billion, decided to begin negotiations to sell itself to Occidental Petroleum instead...
Vanguard Group, the globe’s second-largest asset manager, announced Thursday plans to allocate a fraction of its vast voting powers on corporate boards to outside fund supervisors that control more than $470 billion of its holdings...
