America’s 500 biggest public companies in 2018 are expected to distribute up to $600 billion or more through stock buybacks. Even Warren Buffett , who for more than 50 years has avoided such a move, is considering offering a buyback to his 1 million shareholders in Berkshire Hathaway....
With CEO Hunter Harrison’s death on Saturday , CSX Corp. lost the counsel of a railroading legend who added almost $17 billion in value in less than a year. Now, acting chief executive officer Jim Foote will have to prove to investors that Harrison’s rapid transformation of CSX was deep enough to deliver lasting efficiency and profit...
We need to take a bigger picture view of the systemic and cultural barriers getting in the way of female leadership. How important is it to close the gender gap in corporate leadership? ...
Mentally muscular. Ballsy, even. An oft-presumed successor to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, von der Leyen is the politician who, as labour minister and against great odds, fought for statutory quotas for women on boards, because, how shall I phrase this ...
That represents a near doubling of the current level, according to the report by the federal Advisory Council for women on boards released Thursday in Toronto. Women hold just 15.9 per cent of corporate seats on the 500 largest public and private companies...
BlackBerry chief executive Thorsten Heins could get up to $55.6 million if the embattled company is sold and he is fired, according to securities filings. The Waterloo-based company declined to comment on the figure, saying only that the information is publicly available in documents filed with Canadian securities officials . Under the change of control provisions in his contract, Heins would ...