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Crisis Management Expert Explains How Richard Branson Can Bounce Back From Virgin Galactic Crash
Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson spent his Monday speaking with the media in an attempt to build trust with the public in the wake of a fatal Virgin Galactic test flight on Friday. "We need to know exactly what happened to make absolutely certain it ... read more...
2014-11-04 04:30:02
Icahn Says Buffett Sometimes Too Easy on Companies He Invests In
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn said Warren Buffett is sometimes “way too easy” on companies in which his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. invests. “Warren Buffett should do more,” Icahn told Bloomberg Television’s Stephanie Ruhle in an interview ... read more...
2014-10-21 23:26:03
Warren Buffett Says That Mistakes Are OK
Fessing up to mistakes isn't a problem for Warren Buffett and his longtime partner at Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE BRK-B ) , Charlie Munger. The two are more than willing to acknowledge their errors, and that's a great lesson for investors. Because mistakes ... read more...
2014-10-19 20:29:28
Alibaba IPO Chairman Ma's China
So said Alibaba's great helmsman Jack Ma to the 17 friends who made up his embryonic company ... get the conditions right to produce the band of giants we see today? Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba have all benefited from the way China has blocked international ... read more...
2014-09-08 23:48:25
Will Apple finally reveal its next big thing?
"It means more to us to get it right than to be first," Apple CEO Tim Cook explained to analysts earlier this year. Apple is likely to provide the first peek at its wearable device at a Tuesday event in the same Silicon Valley auditorium where Apple's late ... read more...
2014-09-09 01:50:07
iWatch Marks Real Start of Tim Cook Era
9, but I'll give you another good reason to do so. It's not just the day Apple will likely unveil the highly anticipated iPhone 6 and iWatch. It's also the day CEO Tim Cook will finally step out from Steve Jobs' very large shadow. For the last couple of ... read more...
2014-09-07 15:28:32
Why exercise will make you better at your job
For the chief executive officer of Cummins, time is valuable and spare time is a rare luxury. Yet, nearly every morning, Tom Linebarger wakes up early and gets in 75 minutes of exercise. He makes it a priority, building his routine around cross training ... read more...
2014-09-07 18:20:19
Ice Bucket Challenge of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft CEO
Ice Bucket Challenge - MIcrosoft CEO Satya Nadella Ice Bucket ... Ice Bucket Challenge - Google CEO Larry Page and Sergey Brin Ice Bucket ... read more...
2014-08-26 10:13:52
One of Mark Zuckerberg's mind-blowing predictions about the future already exists
From telepathy to total immunity from disease, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't shy away from bold predictions about the future during a Q&A on his Facebook profile on June 30. But one of Zuckerberg's technology dreams is on the verge of coming true ... read more...
2015-07-14 00:09:42
Cook, Ma talk marriage of mobile payments
Put Apple Inc's Tim Cook and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd 's Jack Ma under the stars together and a partnership just might bloom. Those were the signals emanating from both people on Monday at the WSJDLive tech conference in Laguna Beach, California ... read more...
2014-10-29 00:48:05
Leadership coach Steve Tappin says Chinese CEOs are more inspirational
We did a little episode on him on CEO Guru and he's such a character. He's climbed Everest four times. We went to his office and he's got a shark in a ... read more...
2015-01-16 12:00:00
Fortune names 2014's top people in business
Apple's Tim Cook and John C. Martin, of Gilead Sciences, ranked second and third, respectively. There are several other San Francisco Bay Area business leaders on the list. Check out the top 20 overall above, or visit Fortune for more. Fortune weighed more ... read more...
2014-11-14 20:17:23
11 Surprising Things That Affect Your Willpower And Decision Making
Mark Zuckerberg wears the same gray T-shirt every day. Being a boring dresser helps him take care of his brain, the Facebook CEO says. "I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible," he explained in a recent ... read more...
2014-11-18 02:11:44
Bill Gates lists his 5 favorite books of 2014
In between running one of the world’s largest charitable agencies and acting as Microsoft’s technology advisor, Bill Gates manages to find a significant chunk of time to read books, both long and short. Now Gates — who has been labeled a voracious ... read more...
2014-12-08 20:53:20
10 Things We Learned From Elon Musk This Week
Elon Musk ... 5-mile test track. Musk says he will probably build the test track of his ultra-high-speed shuttle system, theoretically able to transport people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in half an hour, in Texas. 7. Tesla Motors' first all-electric ... read more...
2015-01-18 07:11:37
Why Davos is so important in this fragmented and fragile economic backdrop
Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief executive of Alliance Trust, the £3.4bn investment and savings business, best describes the week as “brain food”. Sitting in her central Dundee office, Garrett-Cox, who has been at the helm of the FTSE 250 investment trust ... read more...
2015-01-17 18:18:32
FTSE 100 boardroom diversity set to decline as non-white talent pool shrinks
At boardroom level there has been an increase in the number of non-white chairs as a result of the elevation of Hikma Pharmaceuticals into the FTSE 100 in March. Its chairman, Said Darwazah, joins Jac Nasser of mining company BHP Billiton and Fred Phaswana ... read more...
2015-06-21 23:59:59
Satya Nadella’s Vision For A New Microsoft
This morning Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella released an internal memo detailing his vision for the company’s future. The new chief executive used the missive as a way to signal an intentional break with the past. That break? Sharpening its “devices ... read more...
2014-07-10 23:40:50
EQUITIES Old Mutual moves ahead with asset manager IPO
Old Mutual chief executive Julian Roberts said on May 15 the IPO was “always subject to market conditions, but we carry on with the work in preparation for it”. The outflows seen in the first quarter was attributed to “market conditions, recent ... read more...
2014-06-30 19:27:50
Silicon Valley Leaders Predict the Next Big Thing
It’s going to be exciting to get a computer that can do things a really good assistant can do.” Joe Tucci on omnipresent sensors. EMC Corp. President Tucci is viewing sensors as being incorporated with everything possible. “I think the ability to ... read more...
2014-06-07 09:03:43
Tesco results - what the analysts say
Despite the PR spin, Philip Clarke's turnaround plan is not working. Revamping stores with posh bakeries, Giraffe restaurants, and a paltry £200m in price cuts is not enough to address the seismic shift in UK retailing. Tesco's market share is being ... read more...
2014-06-04 22:21:50
David Novak stepping down; new Yum boss moving here
Taco Bell CEO Greg Creed will become take over as chief executive of Yum! Brands Jan. 1 when David Novak steps aside and takes the title of executive chairman. Creed, an Australian, will have responsibility for the daily operations of Yum, the parent ... read more...
2014-05-01 18:51:37
Tim Cook takes the stage at Apple WWDC to show off a more open Apple
Apple dashed a lot of hopes by not announcing a new gadget at its developers conference Monday, opting instead to reveal widely expected updates to its mobile and desktop operating systems. But while the company continues to fight off the perception that ... read more...
2014-06-03 00:25:54
Corporations can't afford to waste women's talent
Patricia Woertz, of Archer Daniels Midland, talked about the growing global middle class and deftly handled pointed questions from Steve Sanger, former General Mills chief executive. Woertz, 61, who became ADM’s top executive in 2006, launched her career ... read more...
2014-05-19 23:59:33
TalkTalk says police are investigating a "significant cyber-attack" on its website in which customer bank and credit card details may have been accessed. 
John McFarlane says he would scrap current bonus system for bankers and replace it with a scheme that rewards long-term performance 
