C-Suite
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The frontrunner in the longevity revolution was born during the Civil War
Few things capture Brooks Tingle’s approach to being a longevity warrior like watching him walk on stage in a dark suit jacket and custom Air Force 1 sneakers earlier this month. The CEO of John Hancock was there to kick off the company’s 3rd annual “Longer. Healthier. Better” symposium for brokers, dispensing the kind of
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The Fortune 500’s CEO spring cleaning has a clear winner: the company veteran
The latest wave of new Fortune 500 CEOs points to a clear boardroom priority: executives who can execute immediately. Dow, Apple, Best Buy, and Lululemon all announced succession moves over the last few weeks, offering a compressed view of how boards are recalibrating leadership for 2026. The pattern is striking. Between Apple’s John Ternus, Best
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Exclusive: Michael Boes talks being named the first-ever chief MAHA officer. ‘Nothing’s been off the table’
Michael Boes, a former adviser at the Health and Human Services Department who worked under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is stepping into a newly created role at Steak ’n Shake: chief MAHA officer. The job, announced this week, will revolve around the nutrition, ingredients, and healthfulness of the restaurant chain’s food offerings. Boes said the
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‘This is a ‘come to Jesus moment’: Ford CEO says American carmakers are battling a perfect storm
Ford CEO Jim Farley, the leader of the 122-year-old company that democratized the car for everyday Americans, said carmakers are facing three “perfect-storm moments” that could prove existential. Farley took over as CEO in 2020, but has worked at the automaker since 2007. Before that, he spent nearly 20 years at Toyota. Now, he thinks
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Lululemon names former Nike executive O’Neill its next CEO
Lululemon Athletica Inc. named Heidi O’Neill its new chief executive officer on Wednesday as the athletic retailer looks to move beyond a turbulent period of slowing growth and investor unrest. O’Neill, who was most recently Nike Inc.’s president of consumer, product and brand, will take over as permanent CEO on September 8, the company said
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Best Buy CEO Corie Barry is stepping down: How she went from architect of a comeback to cautionary tale
When Corie Barry was named CEO of Best Buy seven years ago this month, hopes were high that the electronics retailer would build on a period of successful reinvention. After all, she was a key architect of that reinvention, as chief strategic transformation officer under her predecessor Hubert Joly. But it was not to be:
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Steve Jobs called Tim Cook ‘not a product person,’ but still hand-picked him to run Apple and turn it into a $4 trillion tech giant
Tim Cook and Steve Jobs couldn’t have been more different, according to the Apple founder’s biographer Walter. Jobs was a creative genius that spearheaded the development of Apple’s signature products including the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPod. But he was also a hothead, known for pushing people to their limits and sometimes creating conflict
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Stephen and Ayesha Curry are coming for the sports drink market—and their kids were the first focus group
Stephen and Ayesha Curry are globally famous and could probably get, well, pretty much anyone to pick up the phone. But when they needed just the right audience to taste test whether a nutritious sports drink they were considering backing was going to be a hit, they turned to the most discerning audience they knew:
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Boards say the C-suite owns the AI strategy. The C-suite doesn’t agree
Boards are clear. The C-suite is running AI. In a new Pearl Meyer survey of 108 executives and board members released on Wednesday, 90% of board members said responsibility for leading artificial intelligence effectively belongs with the C-suite and their direct reports—essentially all the most-senior executives within a company. Inside the C-suite itself? Executives are
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John Ternus, the man stepping into Tim Cook and Steve Jobs’ shoes, is a 25-year Apple veteran with zero LinkedIn posts
Apple’s next CEO John Ternus is a company veteran who rose through the iPhone maker’s hardware engineering ranks but until now has maintained a low profile. Ternus will take over as chief executive in September for Tim Cook, who turned Apple into a $4 trillion tech colossus during his 15-year run after the death of