US Business

The airline said if Boom’s new Overture jetliner meets safety, operational and sustainability standards, it hopes to fly passengers on the supersonic aircraft by the end of the decade.

A drug sold by AstraZeneca and Merck reduced the recurrence of breast cancer in women with an early but aggressive form of the disease, a long-running international study found.

The company’s chief executive, Tim Cook, told office employees that they are expected to return to their workspace three days a week starting in September.

The tight labor market is hampering new restaurant and supermarket openings, putting a potential check on growth in a food industry that is being reshaped by the pandemic.

The trend is part of a global criminal pivot from stealing data to hobbling operations via ransomware, where companies are hit with demands for million-dollar payments to regain control of their operating systems.

Upstart hedge fund Engine No. 1—which challenged the oil giant’s strategy to focus on oil production amid climate-change concerns—may expand its board-fight victory, an updated tally shows.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has tried for several years to get Elon Musk to behave more like a typical corporate leader. It hasn’t worked.

The activist hedge fund has told Dropbox it is the company’s largest shareholder after CEO Drew Houston, suggesting Elliott owns a stake of more than 10%.

Business leaders promised to recruit and promote Black and other minority employees in the wake of George Floyd’s killing. Now, more companies are putting money behind those pledges by tying executive compensation to specific goals.

Some of the biggest U.S. meat-processing plants curtailed operations after the attack, potentially delaying business with meat buyers, cattle feedlots and other suppliers.