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John Rukavina, 80, visits Marina Towers in Chicago on Friday May 25, 2018. He has worked atop the city’s tallest skyscrapers for decades, including installing one of the new antennas atop the Willis Tower in March.
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June 17, 2018 at 6:00 pm

At 80, Chicago ironworker who has dangled atop skyscrapers is still climbing | In Person

Dangling more than 110 stories above the Chicago Loop is second nature for John Rukavina. He has done it for decades. As for the work,...

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June 10, 2018 at 6:00 pm

As both new mom and new FTC commissioner, she’s just ‘trying to navigate the two’

Rebecca Slaughter is one of the country’s top business regulators — and the first to do the job with a baby in the office.

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Channing Dungey at the ABC TCA Summer Preview Party, Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, CA, on August 6, 2017. (Martin Sloan/Avalon/ZUMA Press/TNS)

June 3, 2018 at 6:00 am

ABC executive makes her voice heard in canceling ‘Roseanne’ | In Person

Channing Dungey avoided the spotlight for her first two years as president of ABC Entertainment, but she was the one to announce the network was...

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Mary Nichols, chairman of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), stands for a photograph before the CARB 50th Anniversary Technology Symposium and Showcase in Riverside, California, U.S., on Thursday, May 17, 2018. The symposium highlights CARB’s history of clean air leadership that has driven innovative solutions and made monumental improvements to Southern California’s air quality. Photographer: Dania Maxwell/Bloomberg

May 27, 2018 at 6:00 pm

She may bring cookies, but California clean-air regulator is powerful and blunt

As head of the California Air Resources Board, 73-year-old Mary Nichols is arguably the state’s most powerful weapon in its war with President Donald Trump...

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Kalyan Krishnamurthy, chief executive officer of Flipkart Online Services Pvt, reacts during an interview in Bengaluru, India, on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Last summer, with Flipkart losing ground to Amazon.com Inc., New York’s Tiger Global Management. sent in former EBay executive Krishnamurthy to help turn around India’s most valuable internet startup. The two co-founders stood aside as Krishnamurthy took control of its biggest sale season, fired senior managers and set tough traffic and sales targets. Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

May 13, 2018 at 5:00 am

Flipkart CEO steered around Amazon to deliver Indian consumers to Walmart | In Person

The 46-year-old former hedge-fund manager took some risks to turn around the Indian e-commerce startup. That’s now paid off in a big way.

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(NYT42) NEW YORK — October 3, 2008 — TV-CAMPBELL-BROWN-2 — Campbell Brown, of CNN, on the night of the Vice Presidential debate, moderating a panel discussion in New York City on Oct. 2, 2008. In an interview in her CNN office on a recent afternoon, clad in jeans and laceless Converse All-Stars beneath a desk as seemingly cluttered as the cable landscape itself, Ms. Brown went to some pains to try to separate her approach from that of her cable competitors. (Josh Haner/The New York Times)

May 6, 2018 at 9:00 am

Facebook’s emissary to the media, Campbell Brown, is greeted with suspicion despite her roots in news

Since joining the Silicon Valley company last year to repair its frayed relationship with the news media, many have considered the former CNN and NBC...

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Brian Michael Bendis at his home in Portland, Ore., April 12, 2018. After nearly two decades at Marvel Comics, Bendis is now at rival DC, where expectations are high, especially when it comes to Superman. â€œI told Marvel that I donâ€™t see this as going over to the competition,â€ he said. â€œI told them I was going to the other side of the place thatâ€™s in charge of curating this beautiful medium I love so much.â€ (Jeremy Bittermann/The New York Times)

April 29, 2018 at 5:00 pm

Can this Portland man save Superman? | In Person

Portland resident Brian Michael Bendis, lured away from rival Marvel, is tasked with rescuing DC Comics’ Superman franchise and the rest of its superhero lineup.

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Berkshire Hathaway investment manager Todd Combs before a 5K run sponsored by the Brooks Running Company, a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary. The run is one of the events taking place during Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

April 1, 2018 at 5:00 pm

Warren Buffett lieutenant is point man on giants’ bold health-care plan | In Person

Todd Combs was the guy who pitched Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on joining Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon on teaming up to sharply...

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FILE â€” Jordan A. Thomas, a former Securities and Exchange Commission regulator now in private legal practice, in New York, July 22, 2014.Thomas has built a law practice representing whistle-blowers seeking to expose corporate wrongdoing. â€œPeople thought I was crazy not to go into a big corporate defense practice,â€ Thomas said. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)

March 25, 2018 at 5:00 pm

Former SEC regulator now thrives as a lawyer for whistleblowers

Jordan Thomas helped set up the Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program, which rewards those who report corporate wrongdoing. Now his clients have won the...

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FILE â€” Drew Houston, the chief executive of Dropbox, in New York, April 29, 2016. In February 2018, Dropbox filed to go public, and when it does Houston will become the newest member of a small club of tech founders who steered a startup all the way to Wall Street. (Earl Wilson/The New York Times)

March 18, 2018 at 5:00 pm

Dropbox chief a tech rarity, a founder who’s kept CEO spot as company heads to Wall Street

Drew Houston has steered the online file storage and collaboration company through rapid growth since its founding in 2007, but Dropbox also gained a reputation...

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