The desk
Marcus Chen
Leadership & Policy Correspondent
Follows Fortune 500 succession, boards, and the labor bargains reshaping corporate America.
Stories
Leadership
FedEx CFO Hire: Signing Pay and Make-Whole Total $7MLeadership
LKQ CEO Change: Abbate Sign-On Awards Total $15.3MLeadership
Trade Desk CEO Option Repricing: Proxy Vote Split 65% to 35%Leadership
Expand Energy CEO: Brown's $15.7M Target Make-Whole AwardLeadership
Scotts Miracle-Gro CEO Change: Son Eligible for Est. $2.7MLeadership
Fox Factory CEO: Six Months of Interim Pay Is About $3.2MLeadership
Jennifer Hamann: Union Pacific CFO Retiring in Early 2027Leadership
Yext CEO: Walrath Option Grant Has 14 Hurdles to $88.08Leadership
Harmony Biosciences Names COO Peter Anastasiou Next CEOLeadership
CSX COO Mike Cory Retires, and Angel Leaves the Job OpenLeadership
Bausch + Lomb CEO Saunders Exit: What His Contract SaysLeadership
Avient New CEO Mike Frank Gets $18M in Hiring AwardsLeadership
Boston Dynamics CEO Rohit Prasad Faces IPO Valuation TestLeadership
FuelCell Energy Replaces Its CFO as Cash Burn PersistsLeadership
Stryker Names Insider Spencer Stiles to Succeed Kevin LoboLeadership
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Names Dr. Joe Mitchell President and Chief Executive OfficerLeadership
Emerald Clinical Trials appoints Michael Stibilj as chief executive officerLeadership
Middle Market Advisory Firm Growth Operators Names Molly Hiller Chief Executive OfficerLeadership
Goldman Sachs board discusses CEO succession planning to eventually replace David Solomon with John WaldronLeadership
Activation Capital names Paul Nolde board chair, succeeding Michael Rao after 17-year tenureLeadership
inoBrix Names Bhusan Chand as Chief Executive OfficerLeadership
Ecopetrol Appoints Joaquín Gutiérrez Caballero as Chief Executive OfficerLeadership
Cedar Health Research Appoints Jody Staggs Chief Executive OfficerLeadership
Constellation Cold Logistics Names Abhy Maharaj CEOLeadership
Archwell Capital Names Mike Middleman Chief ExecutiveLeadership
Surety Capital Names Bradley White CEO as Founder Steps BackLeadership
CordenPharma Names Ex-Hovione Chief Jean-Luc Herbeaux CEOLeadership
Clark Capital's Brendan Clark Wins Wealthies CEO of the YearLeadership
Why Fortune 500 boards are splitting the chair and CEO roles — againLeadership
Inside the talent war for AI safety officers, a job that barely existed two years agoLeadership
Starbucks' new chief bets on labor peace and a smaller, faster store footprintLeadership
Fortune 100 boards fold chief AI and CISO roles into a single security seatLeadership
More S&P 500 companies split chair and CEO after a season of proxy fightsLeadership
Starbucks' new chief treats store complexity as the core turnaround problemLeadership
Boeing's next CEO inherits a supplier-quality scorecard the board now reads monthlyLeadership
Disney succession talk returns as the streaming P&L finally prints blackLeadership
UPS and the Teamsters reopen a mid-contract conversation on Saturday sortationLeadership
Walmart elevates a store-operations lifer over a Silicon Valley importLeadership
GE Vernova's board ties a larger slice of pay to U.S. turbine delivery datesLeadership
Pfizer's incoming commercial chief inherits a patent-cliff calendar, not a pipelineLeadership
Tesla directors face a fresh pay-package vote with index funds still splitLeadership
Honeywell's breakup plan puts two new CEOs in front of industrial investorsLeadership
Nike's chief cuts layers in North America after a wholesale resetLeadership
JPMorgan's operating committee adds an AI risk seat without a new titleLeadership
UnitedHealth's board commissions an outside review of Optum coding practicesLeadership
Ford's labor relations chief becomes a weekly attendee at product reviewsLeadership
BlackRock's next-generation leadership slate leans toward the Aladdin franchiseLeadership
Paramount's merger committee keeps meeting even as the deal premium shrinksLeadership
Exxon directors defend a smaller low-carbon budget at the autumn AGM circuitLeadership
American Airlines' new COO inherits a pilot-training bottleneck into the holidaysLeadership
Cisco's incoming chief is asked to pick between a software multiple and campus shareLeadership
Target's board wants fewer initiatives and a clearer merchandising ownerLeadership
Eli Lilly expands the manufacturing leadership bench ahead of more GLP-1 demandLeadership
GM's software chief now reports to the CEO after another infotainment missLeadership
The Business Roundtable's next chair is expected to keep the tax fight in WashingtonLeadership
Autonomous-agent workflows trigger a quiet restructuring at two consulting firms