On April 20, 2010, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 rig workers and setting off a massive oil leak. Few corporate disasters in industrial history can match the situation in which BP finds itself.
In August of 2009, an off-duty California Highway Patrol officer, Mark Saylor, was on a family outing to a college soccer game when he lost control of a Lexus ES, on loan from a Toyota dealer.
As the world emerges from recession, policy makers, regulators, investors and analysts are taking a new look at corporate governance. What approaches make most sense?
The chief communications officer of a Fortune 50 company was quick to say, “No thank you,” when an independent communications advisor offered assistance to the company’s board and the lead director.
Bringing a new drug to market now takes an average of about 10 years and $1 billion. Bad as those numbers sound, the situation is actually much worse...
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For more than 40 years, Carlos Slim Helú has lived in Mexico City in the same house, which he describes as modest. And yet, according to Forbes magazine, Slim is the world’s wealthiest person.
