Conservative evangelical leader James Dobson has resigned as chairman of Focus on the Family but will continue to play a prominent role at the organization he founded more than three decades ago. ...more

February 27, 2009

Warren Buffett tried to reassure his shareholders Saturday that Berkshire Hathaway will be fine once he is gone, but the 77-year-old billionaire offered few new details of the company's succession plan. ...more

May 4, 2008

In the wake of federal and state investigations into the company and a stock market free-fall, WellCare Health Plans chief executive Todd Farha and two other executives resigned Friday. ...more

January 26, 2008

News that eBay chief executive Meg Whitman may retire comes as the online auctioneer faces slowing growth and disappointing returns from its $2.6 billion gamble on the Internet phone service Skype. ...more

January 23, 2008

At age 77, Edward "Ned" Johnson III can't keep this pace up forever. But it sometimes seems the Fidelity Investments chief hopes to. Johnson's tenure running the nation's largest mutual fund company has spanned three decades. The only other change of leadership in 61 years at Fidelity was when Johnson took over for his father. ...more

January 4, 2008

Florida State's succession plan is firmly in place, and better yet for the parties involved, the agreement is in writing. But based on the contract FSU offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher signed to replace Bobby Bowden someday, it's not exactly written in stone. ...more

December 17, 2007

There might be a succession plan in place for iconic Florida State coach Bobby Bowden when he retires, but Bowden's longtime defensive coordinator and the person many FSU fans expected to replace Bowden, Mickey Andrews, isn't planning on going anywhere soon. ...more

December 12, 2007

TAMPA – The chairman and chief executive officer of Progress Energy died today while on a business trip to London. Robert McGehee, 64, was among a group of Progress Energy executives in England to meet with investors. He suffered a stroke on Sunday and underwent surgery at Charing Cross Hospital, but did not regain consciousness, a company news release said. ...more

October 9, 2007