CEO Agenda

Ted A. Beattie, President and Chief Executive Officer of Shedd Aquarium, was the highest paid charity CEO among the overpaid nonprofit executives in America, according to a report on executive compensation compiled and published by Charity Navigator, which scrutinizes and grades non-profits. As such, the highest paid nonprofit CEOs are...

According to new rankings,  Martine A. Rothblatt, Chairman and CEO of United Therapeutics is the highest-paid woman CEO in the United States, whose total compensation for last year was a jaw-dropping $38 million. Ms. Rothblatt founded United Therapeutics in 1996 and has served as its CEO ever since, the second-highest...

Charif Souki, the president and CEO of Cheniere Energy in Houston, is the highest-paid CEO in the United States with his total pay at more than $141 million, according to The New York Times and its data provider Equilar, which pulled together a list of the 200 highest-paid chief executives....

The undefeated American boxer Floyd Mayweather ranks atop Forbes's annual list of highest-paid athletes in the world of sports in 2014. Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, who won the 2014 FIFA Ballon d'Or award, was ranked second. The list of the highest-paid athletes in the world is calculated based on earnings...

The unprecedented spread of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) across West Africa has been fast and deadly, cases and deaths continue to surge. A few weeks back the World Health Organization (WHO) has characterized the speed and extent of the outbreak as unprecedented. The confusion and lack of coordination: The international...

The troubling statistic, One in five women in the United States (more than 23 million) have been raped in their lifetimes, according to the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The statistics are astonishing and paints a frightening picture of society....

No surprise that with a fortune of $2.4 billion, Electronic health-record juggernaut Epic Systems chief Judy Faulkner by far topped the 2014 list of wealthiest Woman CEOs, according to a report released by BnbData Consultancy Services, an IT data warehousing and business intelligence consulting company. The second wealthiest female CEO...

Content is so important to your marketing and social selling programs on LinkedIn that we have fired clients because they failed to provide us with unique, thought leadership content on a consistent basis. Done right, when you mix LinkedIn with content marketing, you’re able to communicate your value, position yourself...

Packed with Silicon Valley luminarie, Tesla boss Elon Musk was named No. 1 on Vanity Fair’s annual “New Establishment” ranking of the top 50 Disrupters, leaping ahead of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at number two. The new chief disrupter: Elon Musk, co-founder and chief executive officer of...

Thriller writer James Patterson topped the list of the world's top-earning authors 2014, earning a staggering $90 million in the last 12 months and push his career total to $700 million over the last decade, making him the richest penman on Earth. Patterson, meanwhile, regains his place at the top...