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software The chief executive of the company behind the Guitar Hero video game franchise has hit out at Warner Music after the label said higher royalties should be paid for [...]

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, democracy was on the march and we declared the End of History. Nearly two decades later, a neo-imperialist Russia is at war with Georgia, [...]

A lot of the time, academic research serves mainly to confirm something we already knew. That is the case with a new, unwontedly controversial survey of British and American beliefs [...]

Jeff Sprecher's Intercontinental Exchange has recently been at the centre of a stormy debate in the US, as increasingly higher oil prices prompted attempts by Congress to stamp down on [...]

For most of this decade, the conventional wisdom has had it that feminism in America is dead - or, at least, irrelevant. The New York Times talked to female students [...]

Rick George, chief executive of Suncor Energy of Calgary, has his hands full. Suncor is in the forefront of a stampede among North American and international energy producers to expand [...]

John McCain, it seems, has decided to re-run Hillary Clinton's ultimately failed campaign against Barack Obama. John Heilemann, the New York magazine writer, spotted signs that the rightwing former prisoner [...]

Bill Marriott has spent most of his life in hotels. The chief executive of Marriott International in 1956 joined the lodging company his parents founded and was made chairman in [...]

Bill Ruprecht took over as chief executive of Sotheby's in 2000, after the auction house had been plunged into crisis with the news that it and rival Christie's had colluded [...]

Mark Thompson took charge of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the toughest of circumstances in 2004. A BBC journalist's accusation that Tony Blair's government had 'sexed up' the case for [...]

Mike Zafirovski, or Mike Z as he prefers to be called, has coaxed Nortel back from the brink of disaster since becoming president and chief executive of the Canadian telecommunications [...]

Outside Edge CHRYSTIA FREELAND When Mark Thompson, the BBC's director-general, learnt that 77 Ukrainian MPs had written to him to complain about vote-rigging in a BBC-inspired contest to name the [...]

John Rogers founded his own company, Ariel Investments, 25 years ago at the age of 24. He has built it into a successful mutual fund group with $13bn in assets [...]

GENERAL FINANCIAL One of the most prominent African-Americans in US finance has called for greater efforts to include people of colour in senior corporate positions, saying there has been a [...]

In 1985, Stephen Schwarzman and Pete Peterson left Lehman Brothers to found Blackstone, the alternative asset manager. Just more than two decades later, in June 2007, Blackstone went public with [...]

T his will probably be the week when Barack Obama finally clinches the Democratic nomination for this year's US presidential election. The topsy-turvy contest has been humbling for the punditocracy, [...]

The record industry's last big hit may have been Edgar Bronfman's $2.6bn acquisition of Warner Music in 2004. With cost cuts and special dividend payments, Mr Bronfman, 53, and his [...]

The Bank of Canada yesterday became the first major central bank to signal it may soon begin to scale back the provision of extra liquidity to financial markets. Mark Carney, [...]

Chad Hurley, a 31-year-old user interface expert, and a couple of friends stumbled on the idea for YouTube just over three years ago when they wanted to share some videos [...]

The Bank of Canada yesterday became the first central bank to signal that it may soon begin to scale back the provision of extraordinary liquidity to financial markets. The bank's [...]

Chip Mason built Legg Mason from a small brokerage firm into one of the largest money managers in the world, with close to $1,000bn([pounds sterling]515bn) in assets. Three years ago [...]

investment companies Swift action would have helped market Mason warns over pace of recovery The Federal Reserve should have acted faster to stabilise financial markets and lessen the damage of [...]

For Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC Universal, the recent Hollywood writers' strike represented a disruption, but also an opportunity. The labour strife has caused a sharp fall in television [...]

Family in the News THE ROCKEFELLERS When a Rockefeller turns 21 he or she publicly introduces him or herself to the wider Rockefeller clan at one of the bi-annual family [...]

Wilbur Ross sees himself as 'the eraser on Wall Street's pencil' - a veteran turnround specialist who picks up the pieces of corporate America's periodic breakdowns. A graduate of Yale [...]

During his 13-year tenure as chief executive of Cisco Systems, John Chambers, 58, has seen his share of market changes. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Mr Chambers was among [...]

The affluence of ordinary Americans has long been one of the most powerful advertisements for the American way of life. When Richard Nixon debated with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow in [...]

Four years ago, Susan Lyne was parachuted in to a company in crisis when she took over as chief executive of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. The lifestyle and home-design company's [...]

At a time when American democracy has looked a little tattered, this presidential race has offered a lot of reasons for optimism. Did you worry that Americans were politically apathetic? [...]

In an age when Manhattan financiers own helicopters to escape the traffic on their weekend treks to the Hamptons, Paul Volcker embodies the customs of another time. The 80-year-old former [...]

By his own admission, Sam DiPiazza, chief executive of PwC, spends much of his life on aircraft, jetting to and from some of the 150 countries covered by the professional [...]

You don't have to be a Marxist to take a little pleasure in the recent humbling of many of Wall Street's most swaggering Masters of the Universe. And you don't [...]

Money might not buy you love, but it might be able to buy you happiness. Research by two US economists suggests that richer countries are happier than poorer ones and [...]

Money might not buy you love, but it now seems that it might be able to buy you happiness. Research by two Wharton economists suggests that richer countries are happier [...]

The regulator overseeing efforts to prop up FGIC said the troubled bond insurer should come up with fresh capital in 'the next 30 days' to avoid worst-case scenarios such as [...]

Eric Dinallo, 44, worked as Morgan Stanley's global head of regulatory affairs between 2003 and 2006 but returned to the public sector a year ago to become New York State's [...]

The regulator overseeing efforts to prop up troubled bond insurer FGIC said the company should come up with fresh capital in 'the next 30 days' to avoid worst-case scenarios such [...]

Mario Cuomo knew exactly where he wanted to have lunch with the FT - Piano Due, a restaurant a few steps from his law office. When I arrive, from the [...]

Is it better to be nasty or to be nice? As winter finally turns to spring, this is a question a lot of Americans will be asking themselves. For one [...]

When Deven Sharma took over as president of Standard & Poor's in 2007 after five years with McGraw-Hill, S&P's parent company, the ratings industry was facing one of the toughest [...]

A good education isn't uniformly reviled by Americans. Educating one's children well has become a national obsession. Business leaders are desperate for well-educated workers. On the campaign trail, improving education [...]

It is a good thing marathon runner Robert Greifeld has stamina. The 50-year-old chief executive of the Nasdaq OMX Group has been on an exhausting shopping spree, acquiring three new [...]

This was the week the world discovered we may have to pay real money for our wheat, especially the high-protein varieties that make the best bread. On Monday, top-quality wheat [...]

Bill Ford is chief executive of General Atlantic, one of the biggest US private equity investors in emerging markets. The firm's portfolio includes investments in China's Lenovo and India's Infotech [...]

Earlier this month, a thunderstorm postponed a school 'science walk'' during which my six-year-old was supposed to learn more about 'aquatic ecosystems, the harmful effects of litter and what we [...]

As I head down to Wall Street, I am a little anxious about which Jim Cramer I'll be dining with today. Will it be the screaming, middle-aged frat boy who [...]

Joseph Brown, who turns 59 this week, took over as chief executive and chairman of the world's largest bond insurer following the resignation of former CEO Gary Dunton. Mr Brown [...]

Bob Eckert has been chairman and chief executive of Mattel for eight years. With about Dollars 5bn in annual sales, the company is the world's largest toymaker, owning the Barbie, [...]

Asked point-blank, Americans seem keen to escape the identity politics that have so marked the past three decades. When Barack Obama supporter Oprah Winfrey told an audience last week that [...]

In his first two months as chief executive of NYSE Euronext, Duncan Niederauer has traversed the globe, signed two merger agreements and watched as the share price of the exchange [...]