Four heads of iconic U.S. enterprises face turbulent, inherited challenges with elevated investor anxiety in 2025.

In interesting timing, Friday's announcement came on the silver anniversary of the disastrous AOL/Time Warner merger.

Many of the largest mergers, like those described herein, include cross-border, high-value transactions, and some have had varying levels of success.

Richard Parsons, who helped Time Warner divorce from AOL after what was considered one of the worst takeovers in history, has ...

Parsons was widely credited with the turnaround of Time Warner after its botched $165 billion merger with AOL, CNN reported. With Parsons as CEO, Time Warner slashed its debt by roughly half as it ...

He became CEO in 2002 with the retirement of Gerald Levin, one of the key architects of that merger. Parsons was named Time Warner chairman the following year, replacing AOL founder Steve Case ...

Richard Parsons, who presided over Time Warner as CEO from 2002-2007 as the media conglomerate was recovering from the epic fail of the AOL merger and who later became interim chairman of CBS to ...

Disney and FuboTV just kicked off the 2025 media biz M&A sweepstakes with the merger of Fubo TV and Hulu + Live TV. What does ...

Stunning.” Parsons was president of Time Warner when his immediate boss, chairman and CEO Gerald Levin, began to consider a merger in the late 1990s. Nearing the end of his corporate career ...

Richard D. Parsons, a pioneering Black business executive who led Time Warner after its disastrous merger with AOL and had a hand in untangling some of the media industry’s knottiest dilemmas ...