In 2016, Alan Jope did an energetic workout with the host of the “Spartan UP!” motivational podcast series, at one point even doing burpees. But the longtime Unilever Plc executive turned out to be less of a corporate action man. The maker of Marmite and Magnum ice cream said that Jope would retire at the end of next year. The ...

  In 1961, a boxy sedan called the Ford Cortina kicked off Thailand’s auto industry with local workers assembling the cars using parts shipped from Britain. A few years later, Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. set up factories, launching a decades-long expansion that made the country Asia’s third-largest — and the world’s No. 10 — auto manufacturer. That ...

  Amid the stir caused by President Biden’s plan to cancel student loan debts, far too little attention has been paid to another far-reaching reform: the administration’s change to a lending program known as income-driven repayment (or IDR). If widely applied, Biden’s proposal would provide additional relief to millions of borrowers — and make the US student loan system even ...