Call it conscious capitalism or just good business, but these five companies have all prospered in every measure over the last decade by doing good for their employees, suppliers, customers or the general public.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway said Wednesday that a former executive believed to have been in line to succeed Warren Buffett as CEO violated the company's insider trading and ethics policies by buying stock in a chemical company Berkshire is acquiring and failing to disclose key details.
David Sokol, once considered a likely successor to Warren Buffett as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, resigned this week from Berkshire under a cloud of possible insider trading charges. But these recent ethical lapses are hardly the worst of Sokol's business transgressions.
David Sokol, widely viewed as the heir apparent to famed investor Warren Buffett, abruptly resigned Wednesday. What investors want to know now is who's still in the running to succeed Buffett as CEO. Here are four possibilities.
A top executive of Berkshire Hathaway who was believed to have had the inside track to succeed billionaire Warren Buffett as CEO one day has suddenly resigned.
Berkshire Hathaway expanded its list of potential successors to CEO Warren Buffett to four candidates from three.