Elon Musk No Longer Joining Twitter's Board of Directors

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tesla CEO Elon Musk won't be joining Twitter's board of directors as previously announced. The tempestuous billionaire remains ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Tesla CEO Elon Musk won't be joining Twitter's board of directors as previously announced. The tempestuous billionaire remains ...
A Tokyo court will hand down a verdict Thursday in the criminal trial of Greg Kelly, an American and former executive at Japanese automaker Nissan...
A jury has convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes on four counts of fraud on their seventh day of deliberations. She was acquitted on another four, and a mistrial was declared on the remaining three counts...
The high-profile case of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, now before a jury, boils down to a single question: Did she cover up defects in her startup's blood-testing technology to rip off investors while potentially endangering the lives of unwitting patients...
Microsoft Corp. shareholders voted on Tuesday to force the company to more transparently address sexual harassment claims via independent investigations and public reporting...
The defense for former Nissan executive Greg Kelly has argued there is no evidence or motives linking him to alleged under-reporting of his ex-boss Carlos Ghosn’s compensation...
TOKYO -- Carlos Ghosn, the former auto industry superstar whose career screeched to a halt with his arrest three years ago, isn't about to settle into quiet retirement...
One year after the murder of George Floyd spotlighted issues of systemic racism in the U.S., a new study found corporate America has made great leaps to increase diversity in boardrooms. Of the 456 new independent directors added to the boardrooms of companies listed on the S&P 500 this past year...
Many U.S. companies have rushed to appoint Black members to their board of directors since racial justice protests swept the country last year...
A Delaware judge on Monday ordered lawyers representing Tesla Inc. directors to turn over certain communications that CEO Elon Musk may have shared with the company’s top in-house attorneys before the board approved a compensation plan in 2018 that could net Musk more than $50 billion...
President Joe Biden’s choice to head the Securities and Exchange Commission is coming before a Senate panel for his confirmation hearing, at a moment when a roiling stock-trading ...
CHICAGO -- Boeing said Wednesday that two of its directors are retiring, a sign of further change on the company's board as it faces a shareholder lawsuit alleging weak overview during the 737 Max crisis...
There’s abundant evidence that considering a company’s stance on environmental and social concerns, as well as its corporate governance, leads to healthy investment returns...
On Wednesday, April 8, 2020, President Donald Trump took a swipe at Lyash's compensation, suggesting the executive's pay was too high...
Pay for CEOs topped $12.3 million at the biggest U.S. companies last year, and the gap continued to widen between chief executives and the workers they are shepherding ...
AMD's Lisa Su is first woman to top AP's CEO pay analysis Lisa Su of Advanced Micro Devices became the first woman ever to top The Associated Press’ annual survey of CEO compensation with a 2019 pay package valued at $58.5 million...
Oil company Citgo has filed a lawsuit against a Miami-based businessman it accuses of paying huge bribes to company officials connected to Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government in exchange for lucrative contracts...
Shareholders are still voting overwhelmingly in favor of big pay packages for CEOs, but there are more pockets of resistance eight years after "Say on Pay" became a mandatory exercise at annual meetings. Median pay for CEOs at the biggest U.S. companies climbed 7% to $12 million last year, according to data analyzed by Equilar for The Associated Press. The median increase for a typical worker at these companies was 3%. Median means half were larger, and half were smaller...
Shares of General Motors are rising as a proxy fight escalates between the company and an activist shareholder who wants to split its shares into two classes. David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital said Tuesday that it's sending a letter to shareholders emphasizing that the stock price has barely grown since GM's initial public offering at $33 seven years ago. GM pointed out last week that two independent, corporate evaluation firms, ISS and Glass Lewis, recommended against the proposal...
The CEO of a credit-card payments company in Seattle said executive pay is "out of whack," so he's cutting his own pay and creating a minimum salary for his workers...
With three kids at home, Mia Hamm already had plenty on her plate when two professional clubs called over the space of just a few days in October. They weren't asking her to play — the 42-year-old soccer star has been retired for more than a decade — rather they wanted her to join their management teams...
McDonald's has a new CEO on the job starting today, and he has his work cut out for him...
The American Postal Workers Union is calling on Harvard University's president to oppose a business arrangement between Staples Inc. and the U.S. Postal Service, or resign her seat on the office supply company's board...