Boeing CEO Calhoun took home $5M last year ahead of 737 Max crisis

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., before meeting with a group of senators on Jan. 24, 2024. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Outgoing Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun’s take-home pay fell to $5 million last year after declining a bonus, compared with $7 million in 2022, and … Read more

Coinbase partner ClearBank posts first full-year of profit

Charles McManus, CEO of ClearBank, speaks at the Innovate Finance Global Summit in April 2023. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images ClearBank, a British financial technology firm powering payments for the likes of Coinbase, scored its first full year of profit after higher interest rates helped drive a 91% jump in revenues. The firm … Read more

Norfolk Southern CEO sharply criticizes investor amid proxy fight

Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw sharply criticized Ancora Holdings, the activist investor currently engaged in a proxy fight with the railroad company’s board, during an interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday. “We’ve gone to the activist, and we’ve offered a settlement — their responses have been unreasonable at the determination of our board,” he … Read more

Dave Calhoun: Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down in management shakeup amid safety crisis

Boeing Co CEO Dave Calhoun will step down by year-end, in a broad management shakeup brought on by the planemaker’s sprawling safety crisis stemming from a January mid-air panel blowout on a 737 MAX plane. The planemaker also said that Stan Deal, Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO, would retire, and Stephanie Pope would lead … Read more

Where and how the wealthy travel is changing

Heli-skiing on virgin snow in Antarctica for a cool $2.2 million. A polar bear safari in an “off-limits” area of Norway’s Svalbard for $300,000. How about tracking snow leopards in the Himalayas with renowned explorers for $100,000?  Big-ticket travel experiences like those are indicative of the “quiet luxury” trend which began in the world of … Read more

CEO Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia is making humanoid robots

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC’s Jim Cramer the artificial intelligence powerhouse is making humanoid robots because much of the data used to train them comes from the human form itself. “We’re in a world where,  in order to write a software for a computer, we use data, or training examples, and the computer learns … Read more

Outdoor Voices’ layoffs via Slack ‘lack basic empathy,’ says expert

Athletic apparel brand Outdoor Voices is just the latest in a long line of companies to conduct mass layoffs — and “totally mishandle” them, says a leadership expert. Employees were notified on Wednesday, via an internal Slack message, that the company was closing all 16 of their brick and mortar stores, “embarking on a new … Read more

Women CEOs in New Zealand enjoy twice the pay of their male counterparts

In 2023, New Zealand had the strongest board representation with more than 40% of female CEOs, according to MSCI. Shannon Fagan | The Image Bank | Getty Images New Zealand is showing the way for women participation in executive roles as well as compensation at a time when the rest of the world suffers from … Read more

used car market: India’s used car market size to touch USD 100 billion-mark by 2034: CARS24 CEO

Indian used car market is expected to touch the USD 100 billion-mark in the next ten years on the back of rising disposable incomes and a growing middle class, according to CARS24 Co-Founder and CEO Vikram Chopra. As per the findings of the Gurugram-based online used car marketplace, there are changes in market dynamics with … Read more

CEO says Hormel Foods is well-positioned as weight-loss drugs get big

Hormel Foods CEO Jim Snee told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday that his company is set up to do well as weight-loss drugs gain popularity, citing a varied “protein portfolio.” “No matter how you think about our portfolio, you’re going to encounter protein, which is a really important part of any diet program and especially … Read more