Buffett Warns of Corporate Directors Too Beholden to CEO February 25, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel Warren Buffett on Saturday called on corporate America to make their boards of directors more accountable to shareholders and less...
Safety Board to Report on Tesla Autopilot Crash, Issue Safety Recommendations February 24, 2020 By David Shepardson The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public hearing on Tuesday to establish the probable cause of a fatal...
Supreme Court Nixes Religious Bias Claim for Walgreens Denying Saturdays-Off Request February 24, 2020 By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to Walgreens, turning away an appeal by a fired former Florida...
Cyber Insurance Startup At-Bay Plans Expansion After Raising $34 Million February 24, 2020 Cyber Insurance startup At-Bay raised a new $34 million venture capital round, CEO and Co-Founder Rotem Iram disclosed in a...
Small Businesses Hope Employees Like Wellness Benefits Enough to Stay February 24, 2020 By Joyce M. Rosenberg Every month, the 30 staffers at Chris Boehlke’s public relations firm each get $100 to pay for anything that contributes...
Wells Fargo to Pay $3B to U.S. to Settle Fake Accounts Scandal February 24, 2020 By Chris Prentice, Pete Schroeder and Imani Moise Wells Fargo & Co. has agreed to pay $3 billion to resolve criminal and civil probes into fraudulent sales practices...
Buffett Says Combs Likely to Head GEICO Only Temporarily February 24, 2020 By Katherine Chiglinsky Warren Buffett doesn’t expect Todd Combs, one of his two key investing deputies, to be at auto insurer Geico long....
Berkshire Hathaway P/C Insurance Profit Down in 2019 February 24, 2020 Full-year insurance results at Berkshire Hathaway disappointed in 2019, with after-tax earnings from underwriting falling to $325 million in 2019...
But Wait. Here’s ‘The Rest of The Story’ on Buffett’s Lubrizol February 24, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson In his firm’s annual report released this weekend, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett included a side note on one of...
How Pharmaceutical Firms Are Using Blockchain to Track Down Counterfeit Drugs February 21, 2020 By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss Some of the industry’s largest pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer Inc. and Eli Lilly and Co., have developed a blockchain-based system...