IBM's chairman and chief executive, Sam Palmisano, received a compensation package valued at nearly $21 million in 2008, only slightly higher than the year before, according to calculations by The Associated Press. In describing the pay package in a regulatory filing Monday, IBM's board praised the ...

Microsoft said Monday it named Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe to the software maker's board of directors, returning the board's size to 10 members. "Maria has made significant research contributions to computer science and mathematics, and we are very fortunate to have her join Microsoft'...

Hilary Alexander reviews Stefano Pilati's latest autumn/winter 09/10 collection for Yves Saint Laurent......

The chief executive of semiconductor maker Texas Instruments received compensation valued at $9.6 million in 2008, down 6.6 percent from the previous year as the company faced fierce competition for chips that power cell phones, according to a regulatory filing. Much of the compensation for Richard ...

Now it is time to listen to Right-Brain Marketing to help get us out. Top 5 Reasons Management got us into this Recession: 1. Management is focused on reality, when the real problem is perception.   Bob Lutz, global product development chief at General Motors, recently said that the company...

Redrow the housebuilder faces the threat of a boardroom coup after Steve Morgan the founder raised his stake in the company and revealed he is seeking an executive role....

Sony CEO Howard Stringer has taken over the stumbling company's main consumer electronics business after removing Ryoji Chubachi from the helm. Stringer, who has been with Sony since 1997 after a long career in television, will replace Chubachi as president. Chubachi has been reassigned; the 32-year...

The management organizational chart at Yahoo suddenly has fewer brackets on it, and the lines from those brackets now lead toward one name: New CEO Carol Bartz, who Thursday announced the first steps in realigning the company's executive structure. As many analysts and tech bloggers expected, Bartz'...

[N.B. -- In our recent discussions of natural rights and such, regular reader and commenter, A. Murali mentioned he was working on a paper for a class he was taking which might contribute to the topic. I emailed him stating I'd be happy to take a look at it and, if it fell within the fairly broad ra...

As it happens, I don’t know either Peter Bayer, principle of Pembroke Pines Charter High School in Broward County, Florida or Pamela Brown, assistant director for the Broward County School District. But just in case you do know either or both of them and not only know them but just in case you...