The man some blame for the investments that brought Lehman Brothers Holdings down is getting a second chance to profit from those investments.

Hank Greenberg had the right to take $4.3 billion in stock from a retirement bonus plan, his attorney argued at the start of the AIG trial yesterday.

Edward E. Whitacre Jr. will take over as chairman of “the New GM” after it finishes reorganizing under Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The smartphone wars got more intense last week with the arrival of the touch-screen Palm Pre.

Billionaire Roger Penske, one of few Detroit auto men whose named is still golden, has a tentative deal to buy General Motors’ Saturn brand late this summer or in early fall.

The SEC has charged three former top executives of Countrywide Financial Corp. with deliberately deceiving investors

Chapter 11 proceedings for General Motors won’t go nearly as smoothly as they have for smaller, privately held Chrysler.

Xerox Corp. made history last week when CEO Anne M. Mulcahy announced she would retire and that her replacement would be Ursula M. Burns, the company’s president.

On Wall Street, Laurence D. Fink is an insider’s insider, the guy firms and countries go to when they’re in a jam.

When GM CEO Fritz Henderson raised the possibility that the automaker could vacate the Renaissance Center, it raised the threat of both real and symbolic devastation for Detroit.

Stephen Friedman’s extensive contacts and expertise made him a go-to player on Wall Street. But it was precisely that web of connections that raised conflict-of-interest issues in his latest job at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

A man who fundamentally changed the nature of investing in this country has been accused of misleading investors last year.

The Federal Trade Commission is looking into the relationships between technology stars Apple and Google to see if they might violate antitrust laws.

Shareholders of Bank of America may have stripped Ken Lewis of his title as chairman, but the man elected to assume oversight of one of the nation’s largest commercial banks is a past supporter who some believe is likely to side with Lewis on key decisions.

Furious shareholders are demanding to know why directors of Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. paid CEO Aubrey McClendon $112 million last year, bought his personal art collection and co-sponsored his basketball team, even as the company’s stock price tumbled.

The Carlyle Group is under scrutiny for its role in the pay-for-play scheme involving the New York State pension fund.

Nearly every top member of the Bush Administration’s homeland security team has gone through the revolving door and re-emerged as a private consultant, where they can be expected to make big bucks off their expertise and contacts.

Linda Chatman Thomsen, who took heat for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s failure to detect Bernard L. Madoff’s ongoing fraud, is returning to private practice with her former law firm.

As the financial crisis spread wider and wider in 2008, H. Rodgin Cohen got more and more work.

Only six months ago, General Motors chief executive Rick Wagoner celebratied the automaker’s 100th anniversary, saying its mission was to demonstrate it could lead again. Whether or not GM regains that leadership, Wagoner will certainly not.