Ever since Warren Buffett hired Cool, the daughter of Kansas farmers, out of Harvard Business School in 2009, he has heaped responsibilities on her. He named her chairman of four Berkshire-owned ...

For years, Tracy Britt Cool and her partners have been on the hunt for the type of companies that might have once excited famed investor Warren Buffett. These are midsize businesses with a ...

Shared office providers like WeWork are wooing major corporations as tenants, selling them on the benefits of urban satellite offices and a proverbial startup setting without the usual overhead.