Diverse leadership is not a soft metric. McKinsey's 2020 'Diversity Wins' report found that companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on executive teams were 25 percent more likely...
Yancey Strickler, the co-founder who had led Kickstarter as chief executive since 2014, announced in 2017 that he was stepping down from the role. He moved to chairman of the...
Ola Källenius became Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG on 22 May 2019, succeeding Dieter Zetsche. He is the first non-German to lead the enterprise since its...
The World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders programme spots people under 40 and brings them in for a fixed five-year term. Klaus Schwab, the Forum's founder and executive chairman, launched...
Dmitri Galinov ran FastMatch, the foreign exchange electronic communication network, from its 2012 founding until 2018. Under his watch, Euronext bought the company in August 2017 for $153 million, with...
Tony Scott served as the third Chief Information Officer of the United States, appointed by President Barack Obama from February 2015 to January 2017. His term closed with the change...
In April 2007, James Watt and Martin Dickie began brewing beer in a garage in Fraserburgh, a fishing town on the northeast coast of Scotland. Within a decade, their operation...
Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Minister of Presidential Affairs, controls a global portfolio that stretches across football clubs, carmakers, space...
On July 11, 2021, Richard Branson flew to the edge of space aboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity, beating Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin in the billionaire space race by nine...
In October 2018, Richard Branson stepped down as chairman of Virgin Hyperloop One, the startup he had backed less than a year earlier. The immediate trigger was a fatal Virgin...
In February 2017, Kraft Heinz made an unsolicited $143 billion takeover offer for Unilever. Paul Polman, then chief executive, rejected the bid within hours. Two days later, Kraft Heinz withdrew....
The US-China trade war began in earnest in July 2018 with US Section 301 tariffs on Chinese goods. It forced multinational technology firms to rethink supply chains that took decades...
