Swedish truckmaker AB Volvo on Friday said its chairman Finn Johnsson is leaving his post with immediate effect and will be replaced by Louis Schweitzer, the current chairman of drug maker AstraZeneca.
Despite a series of missteps that have drawn criticism in Washington, GOP Chairman Michael Steele still enjoys the support of many state party chiefs, grass-roots activists and, most importantly, Republican National Committee members who hired — and can fire — him.
Veteran production designer John Shaffner is the chairman of the TV Academy — again.
Wireless technology developer InterDigital Inc. said Tuesday its board would meet soon to review its composition after the death of its longtime chairman, Harry Campagna.
Indian outsourcing firm WNS Holdings Ltd. on Thursday said its chairman is stepping down and named a former Autodesk executive to replace him.
Auto parts maker Dana Holding Corp. has extended Executive Chairman John Devine's contract through next year, the company said Wednesday.
Wolverine World Wide Inc. on Thursday appointed President and Chief Executive Blake Krueger as chairman of its board of directors, succeeding Timothy Donovan, who will remain on the board.
The Vanguard Group Inc., a retirement plan provider and investment manager, said CEO F. William McNabb III will take on the additional role of board chairman in January.
Procter & Gamble Co. announced Tuesday that the A.G. Lafley era is coming to a close at the world's largest consumer products maker.
Making broadband Internet access universally available is this century's version of building highways or extending railroads coast-to-coast, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday.
The head of the Federal Communications Commission plans to address students at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service on efforts to increase broadband Internet access across the country.
The battered U.S. auto market will eventually see sales return to levels posted before the economic meltdown, but not for at least another two to three years, the chairman of German automaker Daimler AG said Thursday.
General Motors Co. remains committed to repaying its billions of dollars in government loans, though it's too soon to say when that will happen, the automaker's chairman said Tuesday.
Hector Ruiz, former CEO of chip designer Advanced Micro Devices Inc., is leaving his job with a spinoff company after a published report linking him to the Galleon Group insider trading case.
The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council has elected Rodney Butler as chairman of the panel, which governs the eastern Connecticut tribe and oversees its two casinos.
Philip Brook has been elected vice chairman of the All England Club and is now in line to succeed Tim Phillips when the Wimbledon chairman steps down in December 2010.
Universal Studios on Monday replaced two of its top movie executives in an apparent effort to reverse the box-office slump that has dropped it from fourth to last place among the six major Hollywood studios.
Wells Fargo & Co. said Tuesday that Dick Kovacevich will step down as chairman at the end of 2009, after staying in the post an extra year to help the bank navigate the financial crisis.
Granite Construction Inc., a contractor and producer of construction materials, said Tuesday its board has named a new chairman.
American International Group Inc. said Thursday Director Harvey Golub will become Monday its non-executive chairman, replacing retiring Chairman Edward M. Liddy.
At its first meeting, the board overseeing the new General Motors Co. ordered management to bring some new vehicles to market faster, a sign that the new 13-member board will play a far larger role than the old one.
Alcoa Inc. said Wednesday executive chairman and former CEO Alain Belda will retire as an executive of the aluminum company effective Aug. 1, but will continue as board chairman until his term expires next year.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will press ahead with its review of a license for a nuclear waste dump in Nevada, even as the Obama administration has made clear it is abandoning the project, the commission's chairman said Tuesday.
House lawmakers voiced approval Tuesday for recent changes at the Securities and Exchange Commission in the wake of the Madoff scandal, though some Republicans chafed at new proposed regulations.
Making it easier for shareholders to seat directors on company boards, restricting short-selling in down markets, strengthening oversight of mutual funds, and tightening scrutiny and standards for investment advisers are among the pro-investor initiatives being undertaken by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency's chairman said Thursday.
Just a week after top Republican aides told RNC Chairman Michael Steele's staff "you really have to get him to stop" making gaffes on national television, some Republican Party members have drafted a resolution to demand the party leader cancel his promotional book tour.
Among top GOP operatives in Washington, there is overwhelming majority sentiment that the Republican National Committee blundered a year ago when it tapped Michael Steele as its chairman.
Appearing today on Laura Ingraham's radio show, RNC chairman Michael Steele said that he wrote his book Right Now before he became chairman.
Less discussed was the fact that Steele also canceled an interview with conservative radio host and Tea Party activist Dana Loesch, whose show airs Monday-Friday at 7:00 p.m. CT.
CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier traveled with Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, through Kandahar and Helmand Provinces in Afghanistan. She filed this dispatch after landing in Basra, Iraq — her first trip back since Memorial Day 2006...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2009.
President Obama said he likes the Senate health care compromise and wants it passed by Christmas, but he faces a revolt from liberals who say the health care bill has been gutted to appease insurance companies.
"Rush Limbaugh is so "divisive" that to get him fired Leftie agitators have to invent racist sound bites to put in his mouth.
The head of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said on Sunday that she wanted to end the "too big to fail" doctrine and shrink the shadow banking system that operates outside the reach of regulators.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday said the outlook for the long-suffering U.S. economy was improving but that supportive policies would be needed for some time to prevent rising unemployment from undercutting recovery.
India's Telecom Regulator (TRAI) changes from its consistent stand to save the Telecom Minister A.Raja from controversial spectrum allotment. The state exchequer had lost several billions in allotting 2G spectrum and telecom licenses on shabby 'First-Come-First-Serve' basis.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says former Vice President Dick Cheney's claims -- that classified CIA memos show enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding worked -- are wrong.
""Although I have been in compliance with the rules, my public service motivated continuation on the Reserve Bank Board is being mischaracterized as improper," he said in a letter of resignation to New York Fed President William Dudley.
Michael Steele is turning out to be more entertaining than Republicans had thought that Joe Biden would be when it comes to saying entertaining, and sometimes embarrassing, quotes.
The chairman of the world's largest consumer products maker says a provision in the president's budget proposal regarding income made overseas would cost American jobs.
Helicopter Ben Bernanke has earned the new moniker of Banana Ben. He has earned the new name because of his desire to make the United States resemble a banana republic instead of embracing the policies that made the U.S. the greatest nation on earth.
Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan virtually pleaded not-guilty in The Wall Street Journal today as he explained, in his opinion, why the Federal Reserve is not responsible for the housing bubble that largely contributed to the current global financial crisis.
The Republican Party chairman is getting approval from leaders in various states still reeling from crushing electoral losses on President George W. Bush's watch.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke called Tuesday for a new, "holistic" approach to regulating the financial industry, including a mix of tougher and more flexible measures to avert another global meltdown.
Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele now says the sparring between himself and conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh was a "sideshow distraction."
Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele now says the sparring between himself and conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh was a "sideshow distraction."
Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele is taking issue with the notion that Rush Limbaugh is the de facto leader of the GOP, calling the conservative radio talk show host an entertainer whose comments can be ugly.
Damon Buffini, the millionaire chairman of private equity firm Permira, gave partners in his firm a dressing down and ordered them to eat burgers – after one of them complained about the standard of food at a five star hotel.
The chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board has no memory of a bombing that severely burned him and destroyed his left eye, a family friend said Wednesday.
I was both fascinated and intrigued by the election of a Black male to the chairmanship of the RNC.