In a black-and-white commercial filmed last year, Daniel R. Hesse, the CEO of Sprint Nextel Corp. strolled down the middle of a carless New York City street.

In the middle 1990s, Timothy M. Armstrong, the young co-owner of a struggling small newspaper in Boston, had lunch with some people from Mosaic.

In addition to its lobbying efforts in Washington, which have increased dramatically in recent years, Google has many connections to the top people around President Obama.

Daniel H. Mudd, who lost his job last year as CEO of mortgage giant Fannie Mae when the company’s fortunes went south, has landed on his feet.

While so many others have fallen, Jamie Dimon has led his company, JPMorgan Chase, to record revenues.

Ronald W. Bloom, a Wall Street investment banker who went on to become a labor union adviser, is taking over as head of the auto task force.

The announcement that Steven Rattner was stepping down as head of the auto task force left political junkies and the press parsing words and deeds for a credible cause.

Last December’s executive shakeup at business networking site LinkedIn has shaken out.

Whoever leaked the story about Steve Jobs’ liver transplant could hardly have timed it better for Apple.

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.

Yahoo’s new CEO, Carol Bartz, has gone outside the Internet biz once again to restaff the executive suite as the company looks for ways to replace slipping online advertising revenues while challenging rival Google for search engine dominance.

Jonathan Rubinstein, the former Apple Inc. executive who led the development of the Palm Pre, was named CEO of Palm Inc., the company announced Wednesday.

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

One company’s downfall is another company’s opportunity, particularly if the other company is a law firm.

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.