The desk
Marcus Chen
Leadership & Policy Correspondent
Follows Fortune 500 succession, boards, and the labor bargains reshaping corporate America.
Stories
Leadership
CordenPharma Appoints Dr. Jean-Luc Herbeaux as Chief Executive OfficerLeadership
Clark Capital Management CEO Brendan Clark wins Wealthies executive awardLeadership
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