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Here’s our selective and subjective list of prominent business leaders and a few outliers who died in the past year.

McDermott also served as CEO of SAP.

Many people have written and talked about how Munger, whom I knew and liked for more than 40 years, had a dry wit and convinced Buffett, a fellow Omaha native, to start buying good companies at reasonable prices rather than making cheap purchases of “cigar butt” remnant companies that had only a few puffs left. But I had a totally different reaction: did Munger’s death mean that I should bail out of my Berkshire Class B stock, which I bought in early 2016?

Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz talks about the larger impact of the Barbie movie blockbuster.

Charlie Munger helped Warren Buffett build Berkshire Hathaway, but he was much more than Buffett's first mate. Munger could be brusque, but also warm, and...

Urbane and ultranetworked, the Canadian economist, educated at Harvard and Oxford, is a polished mover in global power circles. Could his next big move be...

All-star board member Ann Mather has worked with many of the most iconic media and tech companies.

Finance influencer Kayla Scanlon is on a mission to explain markets and the economy to Gen Z.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett is no stranger to missed opportunities, but one that particularly stings is his decision not to invest in Amazon.com Inc. during its early days. "I blew it," Buffett has said about passing on the online retail giant not once but twice. In 1994, when Amazon was just getting started, Buffett decided against investing in what was then just an online bookstore. The same happened in 1997 when Amazon went public. At that time, even Wall...

Institutions that sold century bonds, such as the University of Virginia, could be the bond market’s best success stories.