toxic leadership

PetSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ: PETM) is a retail chain doing business in the United States and Canada engaged in the sale of specialty pet supplies and services such as grooming and dog training, PetSmart PetsHotel dog and cat boarding facilities and Doggie Day Care. PetSmart was founded in 1986 and...

Harman International Industries (NYSE: HAR) is an international audio and infotainment equipment company. The company designs, manufactures and markets audio and infotainment products for the car, the home, theatres and venues, as well as electronics for audio professionals. Harman...

Coventry Health Care, Inc. (Coventry) (NYSE: CVH) is a diversified national insurer in the United States. Based in Bethesda, Maryland, Coventry operates health plans, insurance companies, network rental and workers’ compensation services companies. Coventry provides a full range of risk and...

Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: HOV) is a United States real estate company involved in every aspect of marketing homes, including design, construction and sales. The company works with individual detached housing as well as higher-occupancy dwellings, including townhouses, condominiums and...

NVR, Inc. (NYSE: NVR) is a United States real estate development company. The homebuilding unit sells and constructs homes under the Ryan Homes, NVHomes, Rymarc Homes and Fox Ridge Homes trade names. Ryan Homes Founded in 1948, Ryan Homes was originally established to provide affordable housing...

Meritage Homes Corporation is an American real-estate development company that constructs single-family homes across the country and active adult communities in Arizona [1]. It is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona and is a publicly traded company (NYSE: MTH). It is a member of the Public Home...

Leadership Style at Danaher Corporation : The Danaher Corporation NYSE: DHR, is a large global company headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. Its products are concentrated in the fields of design, manufacture, and marketing of industrial and consumer products. It operates in four...

International Data Group (IDG) is a technology media, research, event management, and venture capital organization. IDG evolved from International Data Corporation (IDC) which was formed in 1964 in Newtonville, Massachusetts, by Patrick Joseph McGovern and a friend, Fred Kirch. IDC is now a...

Leadership Style at Johnson & Johnson : Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) is a global American pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune...

Loews Corporation is a holding company run by the Tisch Family whose subsidiaries are engaged in the following lines of business: property and casualty insurance (CNA Financial Corporation, a 90%-owned subsidiary) the operation of hotels (Loews Hotels, a wholly owned subsidiary) the operation of...

Duquesne Capital, which he founded in 1981. The fund is reported to have more than $10 billion in assets. He managed money for George Soros from 1988 to 2000 as the lead portfolio manager for Quantum Fund. With an estimated current net worth of around $2.5 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the...

Leadership Style at Royal Dutch Shell : Royal Dutch Shell plc (LSE: RDSA, LSE: RDSB), commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office at the Shell Centre in London, United Kingdom.[2] It is the largest energy company...

East Resources, a natural gas drilling company, before selling the company to Royal Dutch Shell for approximately US$4.7 billion. Since his cashout, he has been known for his contributions to ice hockey; having donated US$88 million for the construction of the Pegula Ice Arena on the campus of...

Chief Oil & Gas was founded in Dallas, Texas in 1994 by President and CEO Trevor Rees-Jones. Its primary holdings of natural gas were developed in the core areas of the Barnett Shale in Tarrant County, Denton County and Parker County. In 1999, new technology in horizontal drilling and hydraulic...

Apollo Management L.P. is a private equity investment firm, founded in 1990 by former Drexel Burnham Lambert banker, Leon Black.[2] The firm specializes in leveraged buyout transactions and purchases of distressed securities involving corporate restructuring, special situations and industry...

Oakley, Inc., based in Foothill Ranch, California, makes sport equipment including sunglasses, sports visors, and ski goggles, as well as watches, clothing, bags, backpacks, shoes, prescription glasses, football (American) and hockey eyewear, Golf gear and other accessories. Oakley currently...

Tele-Communications, Inc. or TCI was a cable television provider in the United States, for much of its history controlled by Bob Magness and John Malone. The company came into being in 1968, following the merger of Western Microwave, Inc. and Community Television, Inc. It was the largest cable...

The Related Companies L.P. is a real estate developer, manager and financier. The developer of numerous high-profile projects in New York City and around the United States, Related is best known for its historic 2.8 million-square-foot $1,700,000,000 Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle. A...

ESL Investments is a privately owned hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut and estimated to be worth over US$9 billion as of 2004.[1] The fund is managed by Edward Lampert, who found it in April 1988 and named it after his initials. The firm invests in the American public equity and hedging...

Leadership Style at Lucasfilm : Lucasfilm Limited is an American film production company founded by George Lucas in 1971, based in San Francisco, California. Lucas is the company's current chairman and CEO, and Micheline Chau is the president and COO. The company is best known for producing the...