CEO

Rethinking Apple's org chart

It was a wheel that revolved around Steve Jobs. How will it change under Tim Cook?

One of my favorite elements in Adam Lashinsky's How Apple Works -- the "inside" story that created a sensation when it appeared in the May 23 issue of Fortune but was made fully available online only last week -- was the organization chart assembled by Fortune's graphics team under the guidance of senior research editor Doris MORE

Why did Steve Jobs choose this week to step down?

The simplest and most plausible explanation comes from, of all people, John Dvorak

One of the mysteries surrounding Steve Jobs' decision to hand the CEO title over to Tim Cook is its timing.

The assumption underlying most of the commentary these past two days is that Jobs must be really really sick -- which is understandable given the wording of his letter of resignation. But is he that much sicker this week than MORE

Steve Jobs is the No. 4 'wealth creator'

Apple's CEO moved up 31 places in Chief Executive magazine's 2010 ranking

Only Priceline's (PCLN) Jeffrey Boyd, Aflac's (AFL) Daniel Amos and Federated Investors' (FII) Christopher Donahue created more wealth in 2010 than Apple's (AAPL) Steve Jobs, according to Chief Executive's third annual ranking of 338 U.S. CEOs.

The magazine's wealth creation index leans heavily on the concept of economic margin -- defined as (operating cash flow - capital charge)/invested capital -- MORE

Will Eric Schmidt announce a quarter million Androids per day?

Google's conference call on Thursday could be a platform to announce a significant milestone in Android OS distribution.

At Google's Q2 2010 earnings call on July 15th, CEO Eric Schmidt relayed that Google was activating 160,000 Android devices per day.  That was up from the 100,000/day they were activating at the Google I/O event in May.  Since then, he announced Google (GOOG) had passed the 200,000 activations/day mark on August 4th.

Since MORE

A sick CEO's full disclosure

When Hugh Martin learned he had cancer, he did the unimaginable.  He revealed everything.

Everyone at Pacific Biosciences knew  something was up when CEO Hugh Martin called for an all-hands meeting on a Thursday. The company always held its big meetings on Friday, and it was rare that the staff didn't know the agenda in advance. So it was with some anticipation that all 300 employees of the fast-growing MORE

Why HCL Technologies puts employees ahead of customers

This is one in a series of articles leading up to Fortune Brainstorm Tech, which started today in Aspen, Colo. The articles look back at the progress of companies that presented at Brainstorm in 2009 as well as look forward to those that will present this year.

By Benjamin Snyder, contributor

HCL Technologies, an offshore IT and software development company, handles everything from setting up a company's cloud computing services and MORE

AT&T's iPhone problem

Fortune contributor Michal Lev-Ram talks to AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega about the carrier's efforts to strengthen its wireless network.

Techmate: LinkedIn wants you

In this episode of Techmate, Jon and Michael quiz LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner about his company's competitors, when the online network may go public, and its mission of reaching half-a-billion members.