Editor's Note: Breaking news from our satire department.Goldman Sachs (GS) is dominating the headlines today with its 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative. The $500 million program will unlock the grow

There’s an old joke in Silicon Valley about Oracle (ORCL) founder and CEO Larry Ellison:Q: What’s the difference between God and Larry Ellison?A: God doesn’t think he’s Larry

With over 16,000 store locations worldwide and 176,000 employees whipping up double tall lattes, the Starbucks (SBUX) franchise doesn't seem like it ever had to struggle from humble roots. Its quick

Ursula M. Burns graduated from college nearly 30 years ago, when “women CEOs were non-existent” and “black women CEOs were unimaginable,” as she told this spring's graduating

Almost nothing about Sheldon Adelson’s remarkable rise to wealth was conventional. There were no silver spoons, no Ivy League degrees, no friends in high places.Instead, Adelson became one of t

Recently, the government’s Pay Czar, Kenneth Feinberg, “suggested” that outgoing Bank of America (BAC) CEO Ken Lewis should take home $0 in salary for 2009, and receive a bonus of e

Kirk Kerkorian, the 92-year-old billionaire investor, so-called father of the mega-resort, and richest man in Los Angeles, worked odd jobs as a boy during the Great Depression and never went to high

If most Americans had never heard of Wall Street titan Edward Liddy before the financial crisis, they knew his name only too well by the end of last spring.The former CEO of Allstate (ALL) famously c

In 2005, Barron’s called him one of the 30 best CEOs in the world. Then Fortune placed his firm on its list of “Most Admired Companies”. One year later, American Banker presented hi

Frank Stronach, chairman and founder of Magna International (MGA), launched his empire by making 300,000 sun visor brackets for General Motors. The rest, as they say, is history.Nine years after the