When Donald Trump began to speak on Tuesday, during what would become the longest televised Cabinet meeting ever, he did not exactly advertise his plans to make history. There was a lot of the usual Trump palaver about how windmills are “ruining our country” and about the transformative power of his tariffs, which, he insisted,…
CEOs with major controlling stakes in their billion-dollar companies have the power to make themselves richer and richer, but one 82-year-old tech leader isn’t cashing in for herself. Judy Faulkner, the CEO of Epic Systems, has been selling her non-voting shares back to the company—and redirecting the profits elsewhere. “I’ve never cashed a single share…
Welcome to Your Week in Asia. China holds its most important political meetings of the year in Beijing this week, Barcelona hosts the telecom industry’s biggest annual event and Singapore plays host to an aviation forum. In Hong Kong, Chinese bubble tea giant Mixue Group goes public, South Korea launches a new trading exchange while…
Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos likes his documents crisp and his meetings messy. That might sound like a head-scratcher at first read, but the former Amazon CEO and current executive chairman discussed how he maximizes meeting productivity at the New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday. Bezos’s six-page meeting memos have long been the stuff…