Adidas’s new C.E.O., Bjorn Gulden, confirmed this week that 2022 was a dud. The German sportswear giant swung to its first annual loss in 31 years.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/11/business/dealbook/silicon-valley-bank-collapse.html

But Jeff Zucker, the former executive producer of the “Today” show, prevailed, and, according to the former NBC colleague, it was clear to Zaslav that he would never make C.E.O. of NBC.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/can-david-zaslav-make-it-in-hollywood

“It took a generation for the American news industry to unravel, and it will take a generation to fully rebuild it,” Sarabeth Berman, C.E.O. of the American Journalism Project, which funds nonprofit newsrooms, said in a recent speech.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/briefing/local-journalism.html

Take Enron, whose former C.E.O. Jeffrey Skilling was charged by U.S. regulators with trying to artificially prop up the company’s stock price and misleading investors about it.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/business/dealbook/company-puffing-fraud.html

The company’s C.E.O., Paul Taylor, said “the business remains fundamentally sound.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/business/dealbook/debt-ceiling-default-worries-wall-street.html

“We couldn’t turn ourselves into Netflix because the lion’s share of our network and even studio revenues came from the cable bundle,” the former Time Warner C.E.O. Jeff Bewkes told James Andrew Miller for his 2021 book, “.”

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/can-david-zaslav-make-it-in-hollywood

When Kreiz became C.E.O., Masters of the Universe had lain dormant for more than a decade, and reviving it had been among his top priorities.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/after-barbie-mattel-is-raiding-its-entire-toy-box