corporate executives
Top business officers
Corporate executives are the highest-ranking officers who run a company—the CEO, CFO, and other C-suite positions responsible for major decisions and overall strategy.
The term often carries connotations of high compensation, corporate power, and distance from ordinary workers: Corporate executives approved layoffs while awarding themselves bonuses.
- industrialistsOwners of manufacturing enterprises
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- CEOTop corporate officer
- tycoonsPowerful business leaders
- CFOTop corporate money officer
billionaires · magnates · CMO · golden parachute · annual bonus · brass ring · officers · directorship · shareholder meeting · power brokers · power lunch · corner office · C-suite · tie · private jet · proxy vote · board members · robber barons
- D&O Insuranceboard members, board member, liability coverage, defense costs, legal defense
- wealthy peoplebillionaires, millionaires, media moguls, oil barons, oil magnates
- tycoonsoil tycoon, tycoons, railroad tycoon, John Rockefeller, magnates
corporate executivesentry-level workers
Newly hired inexperienced staff
hourly workers · blue-collar workers · junior staff · minimum wage workers · manual laborers
corporate executivesentrepreneurs
Those who launch ventures
sole proprietors · startup founders · freelancers · artisans · craftspeople
corporate executivespublic servants
Government-employed workers
social workers · community organizers · government officials · activists · civil servants
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