Sometimes, the wrong person for the job has the perfect background. HSBC Holdings Plc might confront that issue if its approach to Peter Hancock results in the former American International Group Inc. boss being picked to replace Stuart Gulliver as chief executive. A duo of Mark Tucker, the incoming chairman, and Hancock as CEO would give HSBC its first leaders …

French President Emmanuel Macron has promised a dramatic departure from the recent past. France’s youngest leader since Napoleon has brought in on his coat-tails a new generation of fresh-faced young leaders, many of whom have never held political office before. And in his debut speech to both houses of France’s parliament, Macron reiterated his call for a new order — …

On the second floor of a 24,000-square-foot, used-goods superstore in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur, Koji Onazawa pauses beside some old Japanese surfboards. He’s spent nearly two decades at Bookoff Corp. — a corporate legend in Japan that’s barely known outside it, with 832 secondhand shops across the country. Now he’s running Jalan Jalan Japan, the company’s first true foray …