The desk
Marcus Vance
Leadership & Policy Correspondent
Follows Fortune 500 succession, boards, and the labor bargains reshaping corporate America.
Stories
Leadership
Why Fortune 500 boards are splitting the chair and CEO roles — againLeadership
FTC's app-store remedy begins to bite as platforms recalculate feesLeadership
Antitrust staff put vertical AI deals on a longer clock than buyers budgetedLeadership
Activist funds target bloated AI budgets instead of the usual buyback fightLeadership
Chief AI officers last 18 months unless they own a P&LLeadership
Labor deals at U.S. automakers now include language on AI shop-floor toolsLeadership
Boards demand tabletop exercises after a year of AI-assisted fraud attemptsLeadership
CEO pay fights return as investors refuse to treat AI transformation as a blank checkLeadership
FTC eyes exclusive cloud-training contracts as a potential lock-in device