Dennis Muilenburg has earned a reputation as a high-energy CEO, bicycling 140 miles a week, sometimes taking groups of employees along for high-speed bonding sessions. The 55-year-old may need...

James C. Justice II is many things. He is a coal mining billionaire, with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion. He is the 36th governor of West Virginia. He owns (along with his kids) some 100 companies. He was elected as a Democrat, but...

If you think leadership doesn’t matter, look at Boeing.

Last week, following the second fatal crash of one of its new 737 Max 8s in less than six months, Boeing Co. shares plummeted by 12 percent, destroying more than...

We look to leaders when disaster strikes. Indeed, response to a crisis goes to the very root of leadership. New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern demonstrates four pillars of leading in times of great need. Connection. Compassion. Clarification. Conviction...

Chief Executive magazine announced today that Arne M. Sorenson, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Marriott International, has been named 2019 Chief Executive of the Year by his peer CEOs.

“He’s a global leader, a man with a conscience, a person who connects with his people,” said...

Most CEOs agree that the complexities of running an organization, even a small growing one, have increased. Continuing technological innovation and an abundance of real-time information have intensified already increasing pressures from customers, competitors, regulators and other stakeholders. Leading any organization today is clearly...

As U.S. companies are on track for $1 trillion in buybacks, according to Goldman Sachs, there have been deep, dark concerns that these are financially driven market manipulations that are taking money out of worker’s pockets.

Politicians may not agree on...

There is probably only one person that could put President Donald Trump and newly-elected Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on the same page after she infamously called him something profane and vowed to get him impeached.

That person is...

While well-known for its soft drinks, PepsiCo is more than a beverage company. It owns the Frito-Lay and Quaker Oats brands, and its beverage business includes Gatorade, Tropicana juice, and bottled water in addition to its iconic beverage, Pepsi. In 2017, it was the third largest food and beverage company in the world with global sales of US$96.5 billion, behind Nestlé and the Coca-Cola Company.

Seven years ago...

Despite being a "woman in business," I've rarely thought of myself in that way. Instead of focusing on my gender or any implied limitations I might bring to the job as a female and a mother, above all, I focused on building a brand. The number one thing I relied on to help me advance in my career is...

What does it mean for a company's leaders to be accountable? It's a question worth thinking about as Lyft, the ride-hailing startup, prepares to go public with an ownership structure that's both controversial and increasingly the norm for high-growth tech firms. 

Lyft's two co-founders, Logan Green and John Zimmer, together own...

Recently, I was listening to the CFO of a large industrial firm who complained non-stop about her CEO. At the start of his tenure, the CEO regularly interacted with his top team, but now seemed to spend most of his time brooding in his office. In meetings...

GE Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp Jr. hosted an outlook meeting with analysts and investors today. He walked them through the company’s plans to deliver on its strategic priorities of improving its financial position and strengthening its businesses in 2019 and beyond.

As part of the guidance for 2019...

Ask anyone working at Intuit and they will tell you that former Intuit CEO Brad Smith is the type of person you feel lucky to know and call a friend. After 11 years as CEO...

Four titans who defined a new era in business during the past decade recently concluded their terms: PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, Unilever’s Paul Polman, Mayo Clinic’s John Noseworthy, and US Bancorp’s Richard Davis.

When they became CEOs...

When Indra Nooyi resigned from PepsiCo last summer, she had spent 12 years as CEO–the rare woman to sit atop a major corporation. Nooyi, the company’s first and only female CEO, had been promoted to the position after six years as PepsiCo’s CFO. But like many of her peers, when her tenure was up, Nooyi was replaced by a man.

At the moment...