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Disney’s leadership team, under CEO Josh D’Amaro, wants to ensure the company remains an entertainment powerhouse as tech evolves and frenemies like YouTube emerge.Since taking the top job in March, D’Amaro has emphasized original, creative storytelling, improving Disney’s streaming technology, and keeping the parks business he previously oversaw humming. He also installed…
Lloyd Blankfein went from being a poor kid on a Brooklyn housing project to a Harvard graduate, a corporate tax lawyer, then the CEO of Goldman Sachs.His titanic change in circumstances required a major shift in mindset, Blankfein explained in “Streetwise,” his memoir published this spring.He wrote that “growing up…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his industry is already like something out of a work of fiction.”Evidence of AI’s economic value, importance to national security and acceleration of scientific discovery is becoming clear,” Altman wrote in an op-ed published by the Financial Times. “In another year or two, we expect…
Suzanne Stone spends her days thinking about cancer — not just the disease itself, but what happens after a diagnosis.As president and CEO of the Livestrong Foundation, she is constantly speaking with patients grappling with existential questions: “How do I tell my family? Can I go back to work? What…
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is so determined to buy eBay that he’s taken his own $35 billion pay deal off the table.Cohen has withdrawn the proposed compensation package because he wants to fully focus on revitalizing GameStop’s business and acquiring eBay, GameStop said in a press release on Tuesday.Cohen has…
Alex Karp has added to the growing list of billionaires buying large pieces of land for personal residences.The Palantir Technologies cofounder and CEO spent $120 million on a 3,720-acre ranch in Snowmass, Colorado — a ski town 15 miles north of Aspen.Karp, who’s worth $11.7 billion as of June 23,…
Pinterest is a search engine — and its CEO wants advertisers to know it.Bill Ready, who joined the company as CEO in 2022 from Google, told Business Insider’s editor in chief, Jamie Heller, that Pinterest sees more than 80 billion searches a month.”Those searches are primarily visual,” Ready said, adding…
In Japan, the conduct of lower-level employees could mean a pay cut at the top.Japan Airlines announced last Friday that its CEO, Mitsuko Tottori, is taking a temporary pay cut due to an “alcohol-related incident” involving cabin crew members — an episode the airline described as an “extremely serious management…
Every new boss has a move. Some announce layoffs. Others reorganize the company.Kevin Warsh launched task forces.”At any institution, a change in leadership is a natural and timely opportunity to reaffirm its mission, to review current practices, and to consider whether those practices best meet our objectives,” Warsh said Wednesday…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Marissa Frois, CEO of The Entrepreneur’s Source. It has been edited for length and clarity.Like many teenagers, one of my first jobs was at a restaurant. When I started there, I had no idea it would shape my whole career in…
