Topic: Management

Scott Thompson was hired as Yahoo CEO—the embattled company's fourth in five years—for his record as an executive, not the degrees on his resume. But the fabrication was costly, the Christian Science Monitor reports.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters stripped founder Robert Stiller of his chairman title after a plunge in the stock price forced him to sell 5 million shares to meet margin call requirements. The lead director was also removed from his post for the same reason.

Wynn Macau posted robust growth in the first quarter, helping to boost its parent group Wynn Resorts flagging Las Vegas revenue — underlining the incentive for CEO Steve Wynn to develop his business further in the bustling enclave off China's coast.

That little bundle of joy is going to require a wad of cash.  The cost of raising a child from birth to age 17 has surged 25 percent over the last 10 years.

The TV industry is on the brink of a revolution thanks to the convergence of personal computers, the Internet and television. CNBC spoke with media heavyweights, tech titans and Internet innovators to get their predictions of where television is heading, and how they hope to be involved.

Many countries finance their Olympic competitors, but not the United States, where athletes fund their own training. Sometimes charities help, and organizations take donations, but more often than not, athletes have to get jobs like the rest of us and fit in the training.

American International Group is selling assets and "cleaning up the volatility of the stock" so it can pay back the U.S. government "with a profit of at least $10 billion" whenever it wants to sell its shares, CEO Robert Benmoshe told CNBC.

Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz told CNBC Wednesday it was a victory of sorts that despite the worst winter for snow in U.S. history, cash flow managed to stay in the mid-single digits.

Concerned about Wal-Mart’s reported cover-up of bribery in its Mexico operations, leaders of New York City’s pension funds said Monday they would vote their 4.7 million company shares against five directors standing for re-election to the retailer’s board at its annual shareholder meeting next month, the New York Times reports.

The employment situation across the world is alarming, and there is little sign of recovery any time soon as austerity and spending cuts bite, a report out Monday warned.

Fiscal austerity and tough labor reforms have failed to create jobs, leading to an "alarming" situation in the global employment market that shows no sign of recovering, the International Labour Organization said on Sunday.

General Motors' CEO earned $7.7 million in cash and stock in 2011, the year the automaker reclaimed its global sales crown and boosted its annual profit by 62 percent.

What would professional sports be without trash talking, grudges, beefs and rivalries? For some, feuds are as integral to spectator sports as the game itself. Read ahead to see which recent sports feuds have been exciting, thrilling and explosive.

Johnson & Johnson's new CEO, Alex Gorsky, told CNBC that his first order of business is to get the products that have been recalled back on store shelves.

Despite problems in the U.S. economy, including persistently high unemployment, the automotive industry is a bright spot that gives AutoNation CEO Mike Jackson confidence.