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Global efforts to define Corporate Social Responsibility are missing the point of what makes effective change.

Recent scandals overseas have led to a perception that the once-honourable role of CEO has turned into a dubious burden. How can that view be turned around?

Leo Apotheker, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, resigned last September after just 11 months on the job – but he left with a $13.2 million severance package. Was he worth it?

Apple founder Steve Jobs changed our lives. We debunk the trend to idealise Jobs as a leader (using his 656-page biography as a manual) and we divulge two of his cleverest business strategies.

Group buying website Groupon is in trouble again over mistakes in its accounting and weaknesses in its internal financial controls. But Groupon’s history is gold for leading companies that want to steer a safe course through some all-too-common blunders.