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In-depth cover-story profiles of the executives defining their industries. Who they are, how they think, and the calls that made them.
Nissan was ready to let Honda appoint most of a joint holding company’s directors, but it would not become a direct subsidiary. By late 2026, its restructuring is real, reported profit has leaned on…
BP agreed the $10.1 billion Castrol sale with net debt near $26 billion and Brent in the low $60s. By closing day, an oil windfall had pushed net debt under its 2027 target, which makes the timing…
BYD’s ships removed one dependency from its export business. The harder question is how much a fleet can fix when overseas sales, factories and freight rates keep shifting.
The European Commission cleared the deal without conditions, reasoning from Rolex's stated reliance on independent retailers. Bucherer's 2026 openings and a handful of documented partner changes now…
Broadcom replaced VMware’s perpetual licenses with subscription bundles, and the software business’s economics improved. Lawsuits, partner cuts and a fresh round of three-year renewals will show how…
A contract worth up to $200 million, a national-security designation and two courts that reached different conclusions show what it costs to keep AI restrictions in place.
Four days separated a warning to Goldman’s board from the Apple Card launch. More than six years later, the bank is giving up a $20 billion card program, and the story shows where partnerships…
In December 2006, Ford pledged much of its U.S. business to lenders to fund a turnaround. Two years later the credit markets froze, and the deal was put to use.
In 2022, Yvon Chouinard moved Patagonia’s voting stock into a purpose trust and its economic value into a 501(c)(4). Three years on, the money is moving; whether the structure can carry the mission…
Netflix’s transition from Reed Hastings to co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters unfolded over six years. The results offer lessons in succession planning, but they do not yet prove whether the model…
Dara Khosrowshahi is betting that owning riders, dispatch and fleet operations can matter as much as owning the driver—even as partners such as Waymo prepare apps of their own.
In September 2024, Southwest said free bags were its most important differentiator. Within six months it had cut about 1,750 corporate jobs and announced bag fees, and the 2026 results show higher…
Xiaomi’s smart EV, AI and other new initiatives segment moved from its first annual operating profit in 2025 to a RMB 2.6 billion operating loss in the second quarter of 2026. With vehicle deliveries…
Bending Spoons’ revenue rose 126% in Q2 2026, but organic growth was 3%. The company says it buys on returns, so the real test is whether those hold as debt and deal sizes grow.
Under the Sony–TCL joint venture, TCL will own 51% of BRAVIA Inc. and Sony 49%. The harder question is whether BRAVIA’s reputation for picture quality survives a change in who runs the business.
ASML just posted a record quarter. Its CEO says the factory plan for 2027 and 2028 is still too small, leaving the company to decide how far to push before the AI boom shows its limits.
Tesla ended Model S and Model X production in May and gave their Fremont line to its Optimus humanoid robot. The plant is designed for one million robots a year, but Tesla has not published how many…
Lilly accepted lower prices to widen access to its obesity medicines, and CEO David Ricks said volume would catch up in the second half of 2026. Early access figures are encouraging—but the financial…
Cloudflare began blocking AI crawlers by default on new domains in 2025. A year later, its challenge is no longer just controlling access, but proving that a payment system can deliver value to…
Adobe argued that Figma sat next to its business. Regulators in Europe and the UK saw a future challenger to Photoshop and Illustrator. Three years on, the evidence supports parts of both views and…
The founder of an interior architecture studio and Ruwe Bolster discusses upcycling, commercial discipline, and learning to give her team room to lead.
Disney announced a planned $1 billion investment in OpenAI and a licence covering more than 200 characters, then watched OpenAI shut Sora down. The investment never closed. A larger buyback, a…
In December, PepsiCo said its North American foods business would grow revenue and expand margins in 2026. Through 36 weeks, sales at the segment anchored by Frito-Lay are flat and core operating…
Extraordinary business growth often comes not from acquiring more resources, but from challenging conventional thinking and uncovering opportunities hidden within a company’s existing assets…
The $6.8 billion acquisition gives Berkshire a bigger role in American homebuilding. Its success will depend on whether scale improves the business without eroding the local knowledge behind it.
The board secured roughly 18 months of public quiet from its founder and a clear runway for a new CEO. The sales figures that followed have not been so accommodating.
Bjørn Gulden’s team sold the leftover stock in stages, paused for the rest of 2023, then declined to write off most of what remained. The sales brought in about €1.4 billion in revenue over two…
Logitech’s CEO did not simply spend more in China. She gave the market a different job, turning Shanghai into a product and marketing lab while moving most U.S.-bound production out of the country…
Nike deliberately cut Dunk revenue, is reducing Jordan retro launches and tightening distribution in China. The logic is coherent, the cost is real, and the proof has not arrived.
Boeing sold its Wichita fuselage plants in 2005 and bought back the company that inherited them in December 2025 for about $8.4 billion. The Boeing Spirit AeroSystems acquisition is a test of where a…
Jio’s draft prospectus proposes 270 million new shares, no offer for sale, and proceeds aimed at the borrowings of its telecom arm. The business underneath is large, profitable and, by its own…
In February, Nintendo's president said no price decision had been made. In May, the company raised the Switch 2 price, and its own documents show what changed, what it risks and what remains…
The Arnault family wants to replace a chain of holding companies with one listed company. What it has disclosed is precise. What it has not yet disclosed matters more.
Ørsted could not complete the planned partial sale of Sunrise Wind and its project financing on workable terms, so its board chose a DKK 60 billion rights issue. A year on, the balance sheet is…
Half of Concentrix’s revenue now comes from work won in the AI era, the company says. It also booked a second write-down of more than a billion dollars in under a year and guided revenue lower…
The founder of the Foundation Taoist Health Institute, draws on his management experience and seven years of Taoist training to challenge how leaders think about performance, appreciation and…
Novo Nordisk CEO Mike Doustdar pursued Pfizer's Metsera deal with an unusual two-step offer worth nearly $10 billion. The FTC raised concerns about the structure, Pfizer matched the price, and Novo…
Inside Niels Christiansen's decision to redraw, not end, a 20-year partnership with Merlin…
Rolls-Royce's new CEO didn't just cut costs — he decided the company's own engine contracts were priced wrong, and moved to fix them even as two long-standing airline customers walked to GE Aerospace.
From his journey from Cuba to building Oceanview Financials, Johan Gutierrez is helping hospitality businesses turn financial complexity into clarity, insight and sustainable growth.
From professional hairstyling to entrepreneurship, Yaribey Baro is building a beauty philosophy centered on personalized care, hair wellness, education and mindful living.
Across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, finance, education, AI and Web3, Takahisa Karita has built a career around connecting people, knowledge and opportunities across borders.
Koji Sato wasn't simply replaced. Toyota concluded his expanding responsibilities required a different leadership structure — and rewrote what the top job means.
Antonio Filosa wrote down Stellantis's own EV assumptions and rebuilt the plan around what customers actually buy. The 2026 results show improvement, but not yet proof.
From entertainment and real estate to investment, personal branding and executive leadership, Armand Peri’s entrepreneurial journey reflects a career built around opportunity, adaptability and…
Walmart received nearly $2.9 billion back on tariffs it had paid, and its finance chief said in May that price investment would be the priority. The bigger impact of that choice is expected in the…
Kraft Heinz announced a breakup in September 2025, brought in a new CEO in January and put the plan on hold in February. Seven months on, the company is spending more, earning less and still writing…
Emirates has told Boeing it does not want the earliest 777-9s built for it, a refusal that shows what years of delay can do to an aircraft ordered as the future of a…
In 2006, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang put a new computing platform called CUDA into every GeForce gaming card, raising costs by roughly 50% and cutting deep into the company's margins. NVIDIA's market…
TSMC's July 2026 expansion decision tests whether its Taiwan manufacturing system can operate in Arizona while the company manages higher costs, labor constraints and an unsettled funding…
Inside the capital-allocation reversal that reshaped Intel's approach to chipmaking investment — and the 9.9% government stake that now sits on top of…
Mercedes-Benz just marked its five-millionth SUV built in Alabama. Behind the ceremony sits a much larger question: why is a German luxury automaker pouring billions into American factories at the…
Paramount Skydance out-bid Netflix for Warner Bros. Discovery and backed its own confidence with real money: a $7 billion fee if regulatory action ultimately prevents the deal from closing, and a…
Two years into "Back to Starbucks," customer traffic has returned and margins are showing early signs of following. The harder question — whether the recovery can hold without permanent extra…
FedEx Freight’s 2026 spin-off was more than a corporate restructuring. It was a bet that a focused, independent LTL business could make better operating and capital decisions — and deliver stronger…
"Leadership is not measured simply by the authority we possess, but by the results we help create, the people we help develop and the positive difference we leave behind."
Masayoshi Son is rebuilding SoftBank around AI, from OpenAI and Arm to data centers, power and robotics. The strategy is moving from vision to massive capital commitments, financing and…
Bruce Flatt is betting that AI's biggest bottleneck is not models or chips, but the physical infrastructure behind them. Brookfield's Naver and Paducah projects show how that strategy is being built…
Aliko Dangote built Africa's largest refinery almost entirely under his own control. Now, with Nigeria's SEC approving a public listing, he's giving up a small slice of ownership to fund a plan that…
Coca-Cola HBC agreed to spend $2.6 billion for control of Africa's largest Coca-Cola bottler. CEO Zoran Bogdanović says the bet isn't new territory — it's decades of Nigeria and Egypt experience…
Fernando Fernández is reshaping Unilever around fewer, more focused businesses. His strategy is already showing early signs of progress, but the biggest test of his tenure has yet to be completed.
The experienced life sciences finance executive offers valuable insights into how patient access and commercial performance can be understood as parts of the same system.
Airbnb spent a decade positioning itself as the alternative to hotels. Now it's adding hotels, car rentals, grocery delivery and airport pickups — and betting that owning more of the trip, not just…
In January 2023, Salesforce cut a tenth of its workforce as two activist investors circled and the company's stock had lost more than half its value. Three years later, the numbers show how far…
JPMorgan elevated two executives to Co-President without naming a successor to Jamie Dimon — and backed the move with tens of millions in retention awards. Here's what the record actually shows.
In 2013, Michael Dell took his company private after a fierce battle with Carl Icahn. Five years later, Dell returned to public markets after using that private period to pursue a $67 billion…
In April 2024, Under Armour's founder came back to run the company he built, and chose to make it smaller. More than two years later — and after 13 consecutive quarters of declining revenue — the bet…
Twenty years ago, Amazon turned an internal engineering problem into AWS. Today, Andy Jassy is overseeing that business at a vastly different scale, with AI demand pushing Amazon toward a $220…
The co-founder and CEO of GIV Gowns believes dignity, coverage and clinical access should no longer be treated as competing priorities.
For more than a decade, Tim Cook turned Apple’s enormous cash generation into one of the most aggressive capital-return programs in corporate history. As he prepares to hand the company to John…
SpaceX's first earnings as a public company reveal a business increasingly built on Starlink and AI, not just rockets — and a decision to build the chip-making infrastructure behind it.
Sundar Pichai has reshaped Google DeepMind’s leadership structure as the company faces growing pressure to move faster in AI. The decision changes who leads day-to-day operations while giving Demis…
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Nvidia has emerged as a powerhouse in the technology sector, primarily recognized for its cutting-edge graphics processing units (GPUs). Established in 1993, the company has continually evolved…
Inspired by Nobel laureate Barbara McClintock, the scientist-engineer behind L1 Therapeutics is combining genomics, open-source software and AI-assisted development to pursue one of medicine’s harder…
What the best new CEOs do before they touch the strategy — a field guide to the highest-leverage three months in any executive's tenure.