In a week when large banks wowed Wall Street with higher profits, diversified conglomerate General Electric, which has its own major finance business, also posted better-than-expected earnings results. The Fairfield, Conn.-based bellwether’s earnings per share was $0.26, higher than analysts’ $0.23 estimates. Still,... 

On July 20, Orexigen Therapeutics was living the dream of small companies everywhere. It announced that its experimental drug Contrave was safe and that it helped obese people lose weight–a combination of attributes that few pharmaceutical companies have been able to achieve. Orexigen’s stock skyrocketed... 

Perhaps all the people currently trying to redesign executive compensation should consult just that: Design. Well-known design thinker and University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management dean Roger Martin wrote recently over at the Harvard Business Review about restructuring executive compensation. His fundamental...