Procter Gamble

Activist Investor William Ackman Targets Procter & Gamble's CEO

William Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management has taken a $2 billion position in Procter & Gamble, and it's almost certain he wants to oust the CEO. This is hardly Ackman's first attempt to buy big into a company and shake things up -- but it is his biggest.

World's Most Admired Companies: Apple Is Still No. 1

Now that the skies are clearing after the worst economic storm in modern history -- far more violent than the experts had predicted -- we face a surprising new roster of winners and losers, as Fortune's 2011 ranking of the World's Most Admired Companies makes clear.