Business | Final episode
CBS faces up to its #MeToo moment
Les Moonves’s ousting could clear the way for a merger with Viacom
|NEW YORK
IT SAYS something about the power Les Moonves wielded in the entertainment industry that one bombshell report of allegations by multiple women of sexual misconduct and harassment could not dislodge him as chairman and chief executive of CBS. Instead, it took two.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Final episode”
Business September 15th 2018
- China’s tech founders mostly keep an iron grip over their firms
- AI may not be bad news for workers
- CBS faces up to its #MeToo moment
- Volvo abandons its plans for an IPO
- The FDA moves to harsh the mellow of e-cigarettes
- Tech firms disrupt the property market
- A controversial new copyright law moves a step closer to approval
- America can’t control the global flow of ideas
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