Elon Musk Made Unusual Request in Falling Out With Top Tesla Lieutenant

Last year, Elon Musk parted ways with one of his top deputies at Tesla Inc., a French auto-industry executive named Jerome Guillen. Mr. Guillen worked at Tesla for roughly a decade, rising to oversee ...

TuSimple Stock Plummets as Self-Driving Start-Up’s CEO Is Removed

Shares of the self-driving truck technology company TuSimple are tumbling as investors weigh a surprise management change. Monday, TuSimple (ticker: TSP) said it has terminated CEO Dr. Xiaodi Hou beca...

‘We are facing a retirement crisis in our country,’ says head of TIAA, as ‘40% of Americans run the risk of running out of money’

“ ‘We are facing a retirement crisis in our country’” — Thasunda Brown Duckett, president and CEO of TIAA That’s CEO of TIAA Thasunda Brown Duckett, who oversees some $1.2 trillion of retirement asset...

Millions of working Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck — and running out of cash as another recession looms

Inflation is taking its toll on people’s emergency funds. The share of workers who say they are living paycheck-to-paycheck has surged among middle- to high-income earners — 63% and 49%, respectively ...

Opinion: Facebook and Google grew into tech titans by ignoring Wall Street. Now it could lead to their downfall

Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. became two of the most valuable companies in the world by largely ignoring Wall Street and its concerns about their spending and big-money acquisitions. Now, in t...

Senior KFC Executives Opt for Retirement as Interest Rates Hit Pension Payouts

Rising interest rates are adding to companies’ borrowing costs and triggering higher credit-card bills for consumers. At KFC, they are driving a turnover in senior management. The Louisville, Ky.-base...

Peloton Co-Founder John Foley Faced Repeated Margin Calls From Goldman Sachs as Stock Slumped

John Foley, the co-founder and former chief executive of Peloton Interactive faced repeated margin calls on money he borrowed against his Peloton holdings before he left the fitness company’s board la...

‘We’re likely to see one of the greatest transfers of intergenerational wealth,’ says head of TIAA

For 25 years, we at MarketWatch have made retirement one of our core coverage areas. We have tried to help our readers navigate the fraught and often confusing issues surrounding saving, investing and...

Netflix chief accounting officer gives up $2.4 million position after just 4 months on the job

Netflix Inc. is seeking a new chief accounting officer after its current one quit the role after less than four months. The streaming giant NFLX, -5.69% said in a regulatory filing Friday that Ken Bar...

Senators drill down on Zelle reimbursements, inflation and ‘uber-woke’ policies in bank CEO hearing

Democratic senators criticized banks for not serving consumers fairly while Republicans complained about liberal social agendas promoted by the same institutions, as chief executive officers of the co...

Meta Quietly Reduces Staff in Cost-Cutting Push

Meta Platforms is planning to cut expenses by at least 10% in the coming months, in part through staff reductions, as the social-media giant confronts stalling growth and increased competition, accord...

Verizon is ‘not going to throw away money’ to woo consumers with cheaper phones, CEO says

In a competitive market for wireless deals, Verizon Communications Inc.’s chief executive says the company is “not going to throw away money” on promotions. The company recently rolled out its deals f...

AT&T CEO says Wall Street critics are wrong about the company’s promotions

““We are actually gaining customers in a lot of different places and a lot of different ways, and there isn’t any single answer to it.  And I know folks want to continue to go back and say, well, it’s...

Shopify Announces Changes in Top Leadership

Text size The company announced a 10% cut to its workforce in July. Dreamstime Shopify announced a new chief financial officer and chief operating officer on Thursday, a little less than two months af...

Wells Fargo Fined $22 Million for Alleged Whistleblower Retaliation

Wells Fargo & Co. was fined more than $22 million by the U.S. Labor Department for allegedly firing a senior manager in its commercial banking unit after the employee reported concerns about misco...

New CEO of Starbucks — a ‘world-class leader,’ says Howard Schultz — will do a stint as barista

Starbucks Corp.’s soon-to-be chief executive is a “world-class leader” with deep knowledge of consumer-product companies and will spend time as a barista to get to know the company, the coffee chain’s...

Starbucks Names Laxman Narasimhan New CEO

Starbucks named as its new CEO consumer products executive Laxman Narasimhan, months after former head Howard Schultz temporarily took over to steer the coffee giant through rising costs, a unionizati...

Seattle CEO who cut his pay so workers could earn $70,000 minimum resigns

SEATTLE — A Seattle CEO who announced in 2015 that he was giving himself a drastic pay cut to help cover the cost of big raises for his employees has announced his resignation. Dan Price, the embattle...

Anshu Jain, former Deutsche Bank CEO in its trading heyday, dies at 59

Anshu Jain, Cantor Fitzgerald’s president and former CEO of Deutsche Bank from 2012 to 2015, died Saturday five years after being diagnosed with duodenal cancer, Bloomberg and Reuters reported. He was...

Carlyle Group Loses Another Executive. What Wall Street Is Saying.

Text size Carlyle Group stock rose alongside broader markets Wednesday, despite leadership changes. Keith Bedford/REUTERS/Alamy Management changes at Carlyle Group continued Wednesday, as the company ...

Carlyle Group Loses Another Executive. Here’s What Wall Street Is Saying.

Text size Carlyle Group stock rose alongside broader markets Wednesday, despite leadership changes. Keith Bedford/REUTERS/Alamy Management changes at Carlyle Group continued Wednesday, as the company ...

PayPal stock jumps 12% as company confirms Elliott stake and names EA exec as new CFO amid earnings beat

After seeing its shares lose roughly two-thirds of their value in the past year, PayPal Holdings Inc. delivered a packed earnings report Tuesday, announcing a new chief financial officer, buyback auth...

Visa tops earnings expectations as CFO sees ‘no evidence of a pullback’ in spending

Visa Inc. topped expectations with its latest results Tuesday and gave an upbeat signal to investors about the resilience of spending volumes in the current macroeconomic climate. Amid increasing unea...

VW Board Ousts CEO Herbert Diess After Pivot to Electric Vehicles

Key shareholders in Volkswagen joined forces with labor leaders to oust Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess, who was in the midst of a push to turn the German auto company into a top maker of electr...

GE’s Three-Way Split Is Near. What the New Companies Will Be Called.

Text size GE’s aviation business will become GE Aerospace. Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty Images General Electric is undertaking an epic transformation under the leadership of CEO Larry Culp—the ...

The Wing CEO Exits After Five Months in Top Job

The chief executive of women-focused co-working company the Wing, Jen Cho, has left the company after fewer than six months in the role. Ms. Cho declined to comment on her reasons for leaving the comp...

Broadcom loses top software exec in the middle of VMware deal to head combined Citrix-Tibco company

Broadcom Inc.’s head of software Tom Krause is leaving the company in the middle of a $61 billion software acquisition he helped bring about, which analysts called “a surprise” and “not the greatest o...

T-Mobile US’ Mike Sievert: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Mike Sievert, CEO of T-Mobile US Courtesy of T-Mobile US Text size The telecom industry has been the province of sleepy corporate giants weighed down by lackluster growth and failed deals. Following i...

Kraft Heinz’s Miguel Patricio: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Miguel Patricio, CEO of Kraft Heinz Courtesy of Kraft Heinz Text size This month marks the seventh anniversary of the merger that created Kraft Heinz . The deal, led by Warren Buffett and Brazil’s 3G ...

UPS’ Carol Tomé: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Carol Tomé, CEO of UPS Courtesy of UPS Text size Not all volume is good volume, says Carol Tomé, a former Home Depot executive who came out of retirement to run UPS two years ago. She sold the company...

Xerox CEO Visentin Has Died. What It Means for the Company.

Text size John Visentin. Courtesy Xerox Xerox Holdings shares are in the spotlight as investors respond to news that CEO and Vice Chairman John Visentin has died unexpectedly at age 59, a development ...

Grubhub CEO Says Sale Isn’t Imminent, as Owner Seeks a Partner

CHICAGO—Grubhub Chief Executive Adam DeWitt said company parent Just Eat Takeaway.com NV hopes to find a strategic partner to invest in the U.S. online ordering company, though an outright sale isn’t ...