New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a billionaire, made progress last year on his effort to give away most of his fortune in his lifetime.

Should university presidents sit on corporate boards? Sen. Chuck Grassley doesn’t think so.

Her husband has a new job, but Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., is continuing to do her old job, albeit at a different location.

It was surprising that Al D’Amato, a Republican, had a prominent spot in a Democratic press conference last Friday.

As Bank of America investors question the rocky merger with Merrill Lynch and the events that led to John Thain’s firing last week, the company’s directors are feeling unaccustomed pressure.

A bad year for Wall Street and a bad year for Bernard L. Madoff is turning out to be a bad year for the Harlem Children’s Zone, a successful New York City education reform project.

He has few connections to Chicago or Cambridge. Nonetheless, Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive of Google Inc. has emerged as one of the big winners of the 2008 presidential election.