chief executives

Twenty-five of the 100 largest U.S. corporations paid their chief executives more last year than they paid in federal income taxes..

In 2010, chief executives at some of the nation's largest companies earned $11.4 million in total pay, on average, far more than the typical American worker

How can you tell if a CEO is lying? Stanford researchers have sifted through thousands of corporate conference-call transcripts to come up with some telltale signs that chief executives may be exaggerating their companies' prospects.

In America, some of the most well known companies - the likes of Kraft Foods, Avon Products and PepsiCo have a woman at their helm, yet still, women account for only three percent of the chief executives at the helm of the 500 biggest US companies.

Last year was a bad one for most chief executives -- but not for the top 10 highest paid CEOs. Seven chief executives took home more than $100 million in 2008, and three others had paydays that topped $70 million, according to a report released Friday by The Corporate Library.

Even as more Americans find themselves unemployed and struggling to make ends meet, new analysis shows chief executives at some of the nation's best-known companies are hauling in the dough.

General Motors' bankruptcy filing will do what its past chief executives could not — cleanse the century-old company of burdensome labor costs, unprofitable old factories and a boatload of debt.

The chief executives of the nine largest U.S.

The chief executives of the country's nine largest banks had no choice but to accept capital infusions from the Treasury Department in October, government documents released Wednesday have confirmed.