TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.'s new President and CEO Fred Tomczyk received compensation the company valued at $13.5 million in fiscal year 2008, just before taking over the top job at the online brokerage.
As he's done for the last decade, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs took home his customary $1 annual salary in 2008, but the economic meltdown and Apple's falling stock price whacked half a billion dollars off the value of his personal holdings in the company.
Chesapeake Energy Corp. agreed to a five-year contract with Chief Executive Officer Aubrey McClendon that includes a one-time $75 million "incentive award," the company disclosed Wednesday in a federal filing.
Banks that have their hands out in Washington this year were handing out multimillion-dollar rewards to their executives last year.
For the second time, hedge fund swindler Samuel Israel III is being sent to a Massachusetts federal prison.
Putting together a resume that reads like a list of diet don'ts — pizza, ice cream and doughnuts — Papa John's chief executive Nigel Travis will take over the top post at Dunkin' Brands Inc. next year.
Major League Soccer's deputy commissioner is leaving to become the chief executive of Arsenal, one of the top teams in the English Premier League.
- Washington's presidential ping-pong game plays out every four or eight years as incoming presidents reverse the policies of their predecessors.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, unexpectedly announced Friday that its chief executive will retire in February and be replaced by the head of its international division.
The state agency that promotes tourism to Hawaii said Tuesday it would pay its disgraced former president more than $290,000, most as a "resignation payment," after he was heavily criticized for forwarding offensive e-mails to friends from his work computer.
The executive who succeeded Jay-Z as the head of hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound near Atlanta, police said Sunday.
The head of the state's tourism agency has resigned after coming under fire for forwarding racist, sexist and pornographic e-mails.
In a Sept. 24 story about the fiscal 2008 pay package for Sun Microsystems Inc. Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Sun's share of the computer server market fell 7 percent in the last quarter, and that IBM Corp.'s share rose nearly 14 percent.
Sun Microsystems Inc. Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz received an $11.1 million pay package in the server and software maker's most recent fiscal year.
A hedge-fund swindler accused of faking his own death is not yet competent to enter his long-expected guilty plea for skipping out on a 20-year prison term, his attorney said Tuesday.
A former chief executive of construction firm KBR Inc. has pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges in connection with the company's natural gas operations in Nigeria from 1995 to 2004.
Software company VMware Inc. said Tuesday that its executive vice president of research and development, Richard Sarwal, has resigned.
At least 17 Smithsonian Institution executives with six-figure salaries will see future pay cuts — many in the tens of thousands of dollars — under reforms adopted by the museum complex.
Procter & Gamble Co. Chief Executive A.G. Lafley's total annual pay fell by nearly 15 percent after the company's internal financial performance slowed at the end of a three-year incentive plan, a regulatory filing Friday shows.
The former top attorney at Apple Inc. on Thursday agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle federal regulators' charges that she altered company records to conceal improper backdating of stock options for senior executives including Steve Jobs.
Stephen Sanger got a nearly 14 percent raise in his final year as the chairman and chief executive of General Mills Inc., according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
A hedge-fund swindler accused of faking his own suicide tried to plead guilty Wednesday for going on the lam, but his case was postponed for six weeks after he told the judge that his drug therapy was affecting his ability to think clearly.
A hedge fund cheat who tried to fake his own death and spent nearly a month as a fugitive told a judge Thursday that he really did try to commit suicide while on the run, saying he thought it would be better to do himself in than turn himself in.
McKesson Corp. Chairman John Hammergren's compensation rose to more than $26.8 million as the nation's largest prescription drug distributor saw another year of record profits.
If Samuel Israel III had reported to prison like he was supposed to, he would probably be washing dishes, mopping floors or serving meals to fellow inmates today. And he might be getting up at 4:30 a.m. to do it.