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The CEO Olympus Fired for Asking Where the Money Went
When Michael Woodford became Olympus's first non-Japanese CEO in October 2011, he had spent 30 years at the company. Six weeks later he was asking about a $687 million payment to a shell company in the Cayman Islands. Two weeks after that, the board fired him 14-0. He flew straight to the Financial Times.
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The World's Biggest Luxury Empire Is on Sale — and Nobody's Buying
LVMH has lost a quarter of its value in a year. The dominoes falling from that decline reach far beyond handbags.