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Clifton Adcock
Chesapeake Energy Corp. leaders were able to stave off a recommendation to oust the Oklahoma City-based company’s CEO Aubrey McClendon and former U.S. Sen. Don Nickles from the board at June 10’s annual shareholder meeting.

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Clifton Adcock
The Oklahoman and its parent company, OPUBCO, is to be sold in early October, after more than a century of ownership by the Gaylord family, the paper announced Sept. 15.

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Clifton Adcock
Chesapeake Energy has agreed to settle a lawsuit by shareholders over CEO Aubrey McClendon’s 2008 compensation package, which despite a huge drop in share prices that year, topped $112 million.

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Kelley Chambers
Want to dine at the top of Devon Energy Corp.’s new tower but you don’t work for Devon or have a friend on the board? No problem, the company says.

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Clifton Adcock
It’s fair to say that the past few weeks have not been kind to Chesapeake Energy co-founder, board chairman and CEO Aubrey McClendon.

Thriller
Rod Lott
Beer brewing can be a risky business. Consider Alfred Heineken: In 1983, the CEO of the Dutch corporation that bears his name was kidnapped and held for a sizable ransom, all of which is dramatized in the near-epic film The Heineken Kidnapping. It's more engrossing than its generic title lets on.

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Clifton Adcock
Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon announced that he will be retiring from the company, effective April 1.