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Gone is the boss who loved first-class travel to places like Morocco and Rome, forced his staffers to find him an apartment (and a used Trump hotel mattress), and asked fast-food executives to hire his wife. But EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s many scandals haven’t been the real bugaboo for environmental ...

Kenneth I. Chenault, one of the longest-serving executives in finance and one of corporate America’s few black top leaders, will retire next year as the chairman and chief executive of American Express. Under Mr. Chenault’s leadership, American Express expanded beyond its core market of corporate customers and wealthy cardholders to ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber chose Dara Khosrowshahi, who leads the online travel company Expedia, to be its chief executive on Sunday, two people with knowledge of the decision said. The selection capped a contentious search process as the ride-hailing company seeks to move past a turbulent period. Mr. Khosrowshahi emerged ...

Late Sunday evening, Kenneth C. Frazier, the chief executive of Merck — one of the biggest drugmakers in America — informed his board members that he was about to do something that would have major fallout for him personally and for the company he leads: He was about to take ...

By JACK EWING January 27, 2017 German prosecutors said for the first time on Friday that they had evidence that Volkswagen’s former chief executive took part in the company’s emissions fraud, significantly raising the stakes for the carmaker and undercutting its attempts to put the scandal behind it. Martin Winterkorn, who resigned ...

WASHINGTON — Rex W. Tillerson, the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, whose extensive deal-making for the energy giant has plunged him into global politics from Yemen to Russia, is expected to be offered the secretary of state post this weekend by President-elect Donald J. Trump, according to two people close ...

By BEN PROTESS and ALEXANDRA STEVENSON November 14, 2016 Wall Street regulators began an exodus from Washington on Monday as Mary Jo White, the chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, announced plans to leave the agency. The decision makes Ms. White, a former federal prosecutor who has served more than two decades in ...

By MUJIB MASHAL May 22, 2016 KABUL, Afghanistan — After months of failed Pakistani efforts to broker peace talks with the Taliban, an American drone strike against the leader of the Afghan militants signaled a major break with precedent as the United States circumvented Pakistan in an effort to disrupt the strengthening ...

By KATIE THOMAS April 27, 2016 WASHINGTON — The chief executive of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, which has been harshly criticized for its practice of raising prices on old drugs, said during a tense hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday that the company had made “mistakes,” while lawmakers accused him and others connected ...

The pharmaceutical company Bayer says its strategy chief, Werner Baumann, will succeed its chief executive, Marijn Dekkers, on May 1. The company said that Mr. Dekkers, 58, requested that his contract end early so that Mr. Baumann, 53, can take over after the annual shareholders’ meeting on April 30. This ...