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INVESTING Report Shows SurgeIn Activist Shareholders A record number of activist shareholders mounted campaigns at global companies in 2024, a Barclays report showed on Thursday, as their pressure tactics produced [...]

The encampments have been cleared; campuses have emptied; protester and counterprotester alike have moved on to internships, summer gigs and in some cases, the start of their postgraduate careers. Leaving [...]

As corporate diversity, equity and inclusion programs come under attack, some companies are rebranding their efforts. Joelle Emerson's D.E.I. consultancy, Paradigm, works with more than 500 companies. The growing backlash [...]

The Supreme Court decision on college admissions could lead companies to alter recruitment and promotion practices to pre-empt legal challenges. As a legal matter, the Supreme Court's rejection of race-conscious [...]

Apple, Starbucks, Trader Joe's and REI are accused of targeting union supporters after organizing efforts gained traction, charges the companies deny. After working for more than seven years at an [...]

COMPANIES Corporate Bankruptcies Are on Rise, Study Shows New data shows that 2023 is shaping up to be the biggest year for Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings by U.S. corporations in [...]

The outlook for corporate profits has swiftly deteriorated, with inflation still fast and a banking scare prompting some investor caution. As the country's largest companies prepare to report their results [...]

Nearly two years after many U.S. workplaces closed their doors, some are considering when to ask employees to return to their offices. But vaccination policies, similar to mask rules and [...]

ENDICOTT, N.Y. -- The sidewalks along Washington Avenue in Endicott, N.Y., are empty enough that bicycles cruise their length with smooth sailing. But 40 years ago, when an IBM plant [...]

A bustling market for souvenirs of Lehman Brothers, Enron, and other casualties of the system. When Jack Carlson wears his mom's old green Lehman Brothers sweatshirt around New York City, [...]

Microsoft, Starbucks and Amazon are among the companies offering the government assistance with logistics and operations. Amazon wrote to President Biden on Thursday offering to assist with communication and technology. [...]

The social network has tried striking a more conciliatory tone with its advertisers, who object to its handling of hate speech. Last Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, attended a [...]

HONG KONG -- As big companies in Hong Kong squirm under pressure to denounce the continuing antigovernment protests in the territory or risk angering China, some of their employees are [...]

The hit podcast ''Serial'' was the audio investigation that launched a thousand true-crime dramas, inspiring podcasters across the country to attempt ambitious reporting projects with gritty subject matter. There were [...]

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From the mid-20th century until the 1970s, American corporations shared a belief that they had a duty not only to their shareholders but to their workers, their communities and the [...]

Good Monday. Want this by email? Sign up here.What's eating American C.E.O.s?We have some insight, thanks to the Yale C.E.O. Summit with Jeffrey Sonnenfeld last week in New York. The [...]

Corporations, like people, are pretty simple: They do what they are rewarded to do. So when the Federal Reserve, by keeping interest rates very low for nearly a decade, rewards [...]

A Minneapolis marketing company recently made tweaks to its employee benefits this summer, ranging from conventional to unusual. It gave workers a larger commuter stipend, as well as a reason [...]

Corporate managers used to focus on one thing when it came to employee travel: saving money. But now, given the nature of travel -- crowded planes, tighter seats, security hassles [...]

Corporate America has largely avoided sticking its head over the parapet in the trade war. That's going to become harder as the bellicose rhetoric transforms into action. Case in point [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration granted seven companies the first set of exclusions from its metal tariffs this week and rejected requests from 11 other companies, as the Commerce Department [...]

TOKYO -- There is absolutely nothing sexy about bellows. But they just might be the future of Japan. The cylindrical metal products made by Irie Koken Company more resemble Slinkys [...]

WASHINGTON -- The new Republican tax cut is providing a powerful weapon for the law's supporters and detractors, as well as investors and analysts, who are mining data on how [...]

What a herky-jerky mess our federal government is. What a bumbling klutz. It can't manage health care. It can't master infrastructure. It can't fund itself for more than tiny increments [...]

WASHINGTON -- There are good ways to start measuring how much the Trump tax cuts might be helping American workers. Tracking the bonus announcements flowing from corporations is not one [...]

LONDON -- Worried by a long-term rise in inequality, Britain announced on Tuesday a series of measures aimed at increasing transparency over executive compensation, hoping to ramp up pressure on [...]

Developing nations and environmental groups are challenging some of the world's biggest companies and wealthiest countries over the role corporate lobbyists play in United Nations climate change negotiations. The dispute [...]

The economy thrives when businesses compete with each other for workers and customers. That is hardly a new idea, but it bears repeating as companies increasingly use noncompete agreements to [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDDonald J. Trump won't be sworn in until Friday but big business has already thrown him a veritable inaugural ball. A series of blue-chip companies, among them Ford, Lockheed [...]

WASHINGTON -- A nascent effort by the Obama administration to limit corporate consolidation, begun after officials concluded that a lack of competition was hurting the American economy, appears to be [...]

LONDON -- Steven Woolfe, a British member of the European Parliament, concedes that he should have checked his facts before setting off a social media campaign against one of Britain's [...]

While chief executives generally prefer not to say how much more money they make than their typical employee, some have found it advantageous to do just that. Some companies like [...]

The iPhone in your pocket has more computing power than the Voyager spacecraft that left the solar system two years ago. High-tech cancer drugs are being approved every month. A [...]

SINGAPORE -- General Motors moved the headquarters of its international division here from Shanghai last month. Archer Daniels Midland, the agribusiness giant, is gradually doing the same with its Asia [...]

Fast-food workers, who have been striking regularly for higher pay and an unimpeded right to unionize, are not the only people fed up with powerful corporate bosses. The California Legislature [...]

VIENTIANE, Laos -- On alternate mornings, in a sparsely furnished classroom at a private school in the Laotian capital, Liphakone Ratthida and a dozen of his classmates converse in Chinese [...]

PARIS -- There was a time when a company's art collection depended primarily on the whims of the boss. In France, such passing fancies were called the ''danseuse du prsident,'' [...]

Executives and board members used to fear hostile bids above all else. In response, they devised defense mechanisms like poison pills and staggered boards to thwart attacks. Today, hostile deals [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDHow did corporate America lose control of the Republican Party? From overhauling immigration laws to increasing spending on the nation's aging infrastructure, big business leaders have seemed relatively powerless [...]

YOU call this a revolution? Probably the most-heard complaint about big business these days, one seemingly tailored for the 99 percent, is how much money corporate C.E.O.'s routinely pull down. [...]

LONDON - Companies should help reduce income inequality and focus more on long-term goals, a new group of supporters of capitalism said on Monday. In its first paper, the group, [...]

As many households and small businesses are being turned away by bank loan officers, large corporations are borrowing vast sums of money for next to nothing -- simply because they [...]

As huge corporations merge and get even huger, we find ourselves yearning for some old-fashioned competition, and maybe a little diversity. Banks have gotten so big that they can unleash [...]

From a rooftop overlooking hundreds of failed dot-com businesses in the South of Market district here, an inelegant picture-frame sized antenna is now radiating the Internet over a 20-block area. […]

The great boom in corporate earnings, which helped propel the market and buoyed the economy for more than four years, seems to be over. What analysts are arguing over now […]