As president, Mr. Neimark helped transform what had been seen as a safe, dull and expensive store into an avatar of luxu...

Recently stripped of a board seat in his family’s empire, Mr. Cho had been caught up in corruption investigations and a...

During Mr. Boardman’s tenure as overseer of the nation’s passenger railroads, from 2008 to 2016, he presided over increa...

A favorite of corporations, museums and government, he was given wide leeway in expressing his restless imagination in r...

Her research established that a white man, even if he had a felony conviction, fared better when applying for a job than...

In 1951, at a time when few women were being admitted into the executive suites of any industry, she became a vice presi...

Gilberto Benetton, a co-founder of Italian clothing retailer United Colors of Benetton who masterminded the family empir...

Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen, who had been suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer, passed...

H.F. Lenfest, a Philadelphia philanthropist who made $1 billion in the cable industry and gave most of it away, died on...

Former Fiat Chrysler chief executive Sergio Marchionne, one of the auto industry's most tenacious and respected aut...

Her bosses at the office saw her as too “macho” and “aggressive” to be made a partner. The Supreme Court saw her as a vi...

As head of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Mr. Paige fought to save black farmers’ land and win compensation to...

“Women’s Work,” published in 1981, drew an enormous advance for a first-time novelist. It told of an adwoman who was not...

“Women’s Work,” published in 1981, drew an enormous advance for a first-time novelist. It told of an adwoman who was not...

One of four brothers who organized the company in postwar Japan, he marketed the mini-calculator, the G-Shock watch and...