One of the most emotional moments in the coming Pixar computer-animated film "Brave" happens during the end credits. An early cut of the film is dedicated to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who is lauded as a partner, mentor and friend.
The 20 top-paid CEOs have more than their multimillion-dollar pay packages in common: They're all men. A roundup of the highest-paid bosses from 2011 in an earlier Wall Street Journal article is a reminder that women are still a rarity in ...
Here is a look at real-estate news in Friday's WSJ: Fannie CEO Search Now Down to Two: Fannie Mae has narrowed its search for a new chief executive to two finalists and could soon offer the position to Timothy Mayopoulos, the ...
Winners & Losers for the week that was in business and deals, Deal Journal's weekly look back and grading system of some of the biggest stories: The Facebook Edition.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — As IndyCar readies for its biggest weekend of the season at the Indianapolis 500, the sport is seeing a relative boom in business.
Chief executives increasingly are being paid based on their companies' financial results and share prices, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.
A Minnesota health system that has come under scrutiny for its hiring of hospital contractor Accretive Health Inc. to handle billing and collections functions said its chief executive will leave at the end of July.
Fannie Mae has narrowed its search for a new chief executive to two finalists and could soon offer the position to Timothy Mayopoulos, the mortgage-finance company's general counsel and lead candidate, according to people familiar with the ...
My colleague Kirsten Grind had a story in Thrusday's paper about how a small group of "market wonks" is planning a new trading venue designed solely for mutual-fund managers.
If you cut Mike Lynch, the ousted CEO of Autonomy, the U.K.'s largest software company, he would probably bleed numbers. He studied engineering at Cambridge University and obtained a PhD in mathematical computing. He is a fellow of the Royal ...
At the recent annual meeting of medical-device maker Stryker Corp., Chairman William U. Parfet puzzled attendees when he began with a brief statement about former Chief Executive Stephen P. MacMillan, who was pushed out two months earlier.
New signs of a global slowdown are darkening the economic outlook. On Thursday, the U.S. reported that businesses were slowing their orders of computers, aircraft, machinery and other long-lasting goods. Measures of business sentiment in ...
The European Union's cookie directive—dismissed by one entrepreneur as "stupid to the core"—comes into force on Saturday and sites that fail to implement the regulations face the prospect of legal action.