Items Tagged with 'executive'

With the March announcement that pharmaceutical giant Merck will help rival Johnson & Johnson manufacture J&J’s Covid vaccine, President Joe Biden’s promise to have enough shots for every adult by the end of May appears to be on track. The light at the end of a long tunnel is...

Seventeen years after launching Kind, founder Daniel Lubetzky has found his exit strategy. The New York City-based maker of Kind bars will be acquired by snack food and pet care giant Mars, the companies announced on Tuesday. The deal has been oft-rumored ever since Mars...

Kara Goldin headed into a local Target store one evening in March and executed a corporate duty she’d left behind a decade ago: merchandising. In the teeth of an unfolding pandemic, the CEO of San Francisco-based Hint Water decided to go where she wouldn’t send her sales team, slipping into...

With a national dialogue swirling around equity and inclusion, the data show that corporate America is still struggling with the basics of diversity and representation. According to a recently published McKinsey report, only 15 percent of the executive teams they surveyed in the United States and the United Kingdom had...

Who you hire matters, but what you expect of them makes an even larger impact. I recently hired for a new executive leadership position and had high expectations for what their role would look like. Even more so, I held high hopes around...

Heads of human resources have a lot to talk about these days. There’s a raging public health crisis to deal with, which has forced many companies to transition to at least a partly remote workforce. There’s also a racial...

By default, CEOs have position authority – they are the senior-most executives in their organizations who serve as agents on behalf of their boards, investors or sometimes...