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CNN
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Samsung Group chairman Lee Kun-hee said Friday that he will consider structural and management changes -- including his own position -- over a corruption scandal that has rocked South Korea's biggest industrial conglomerate. "I will deeply think about res..
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CNN
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The air was declared clean, but the carcinogen asbestos was found in dust and debris hurled into midtown Manhattan by a steam pipe explosion the day before, New York City announced Thursday. The city's Department of Emergency Management will continue to t..
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BusinessWeek
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Meet the champs of the 2007 Standard & Poor's/BusinessWeek Excellence in Fund Management Awards
There are more than 6,000 mutual funds, but, hey, how many can you name? Chances are the ones you know are offered by giants such as Fidelity, T. Rowe Price..
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BBC News
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The freedoms built in to the net are under attack like never before, argues regular columnist Bill Thompson...
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BusinessWeek
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Hermitage Capital Management alleges that a massive fraud attempt in Russia, which even included the police, nearly made off with hundreds of millions
Corruption, intimidation, robbery, violent assault, forgery, large-scale fraud. No, not the subject o..
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BBC News
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Alitalia management are holding an emergency board meeting after the chairman quit amid the collapse of takeover talks with Air France-KLM.
Maurizio Prato stood down after the breakdown of talks between Alitalia's unions and Air France-KLM management...
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BusinessWeek
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With the bank's vulnerabilities exposed, technologies for risk and fraud management just got a lot more popular
The investigation into how Jerome Kerviel, Société Générale (SOGN.PA)'s rogue trader, managed to lose $7.2 billion before being caught i..
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BusinessWeek
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The last major label will throw in the towel on digital rights management and prepare to fight Apple for valuable download revenues
In a move that would mark the end of a digital music era, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing plans to sell songs..
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BusinessWeek
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The embattled telecom equipment company announces deep job cuts, affecting even management, to restore profitability. But pitfalls still abound
Does Alcatel-Lucent finally have a road map to recovery? Posting its third consecutive quarterly loss on Oct..
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Alter Net
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At a recent Qwest annual meeting, shareholders expressed anger over management's salaries and perks. Their frustration -- and management's rationalizations -- tell us a great deal about profits, power and the state of corporate America today.
Qwest, th..
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PBS
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Last year I wrote a series of columns on management problems at IBM Global Services, explaining how the executive ranks from CEO Sam Palmisano on down were losing touch with reality, bidding contracts too low to make a profit then mismanaging them in an a..
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BusinessWeek
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Undergraduate programs already have a presence in this virtual world, but INSEAD is one of the first management programs to break ground
My avatar—a bronzed brunette in jeans and a purple sweater—recently visited an island in the virtual world wher..
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Houston Chronicle
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Blues legend B.B. King was "back to his old self" today after being discharged from a Galveston hospital where he was treated for a fever, a spokeswoman for his management agency said...
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Ars Technica
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DRM is dying. It's a statement being echoed with increasing frequency around the Web over the last few weeks, and is perhaps best articulated in this Billboard article. Antony Bruno lays out his case for why 2007 will be the year that the major labels "..
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Financial Times
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Ken Kutaragi, the maverick Sony engineer behind all three generations of PlayStation games consoles, will on Friday become chairman and chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment in a management reshuffle that underscores Sony's difficulties in the v..
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