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Some women are trying to push back against an unwritten set of responsibilities—everything from booking meeting rooms to buying and circulating birthday cards—which are interrupting the actual work they were hired to do.

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Some women are trying to push back against an unwritten set of responsibilities—everything from booking meeting rooms to buying and circulating birthday cards—which are interrupting the actual work they were hired to do.

You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more

One of the latest is Amazon.com Inc., which will pay travel costs for workers diagnosed with cancer who choose to see doctors at City of Hope, a Los Angeles-area health system. More than 380,000 of the Seattle-based company’s employees and families across the U.S. are eligible for the travel benefit.

Travel programs are winning over employers despite added costs for airfare, hotels and gasoline. Proponents say companies can get competitive prices and employees get better care—such as avoiding unnecessary treatment—by shopping around the country instead of always relying on local providers. Employer health plans, which cover roughly 153 million people in the U.S., struggle to command competitive prices and quality controls in some markets as health-care providers have consolidated and gained leverage in negotiations.

“If you’re able to look nationally, you’re just going to have more choices,” for top doctors, said Lee Lewis, chief strategy officer of the Health...

UnitedHealth Group Inc. boosted its profit guidance for the year as revenue growth from its network of health services, premiums and health-care plan membership fueled the company’s third-quarter performance.

Per-share earnings for 2019 are projected to reach between $14.15 and $14.25, compared with the company’s previous forecast of $13.95 to $14.15. UnitedHealth said it expects adjusted per-share earnings to come in between $14.90 and $15 a share, compared with earlier projections of $14.70 a share to $14.90 a share.

The parent of the nation’s largest health insurer posted sales of $60.35 billion for the third quarter, up 6.7% from the comparable quarter a year ago and beating the $59.76 billion analysts polled by FactSet had expected.

Johnson & Johnson raised its financial forecast for the rest of 2019, despite grappling with a heavy case load of litigation, as it reported quarterly results that were above Wall Street estimates, boosted by gains in its consumer and pharmaceuticals divisions.

J&J is facing lawsuits in the U.S. from more than 100,000 plaintiffs over product safety and marketing practices for a range of products including baby powder and opioids. The company, which says its products are safe, has lost some high-profile trials, including...

General Motors Co. Chief Executive Mary Barra met with United Auto Workers bargainers Tuesday morning as the two sides push to end a 30-day strike at GM’s U.S. factories, according to people briefed on the discussions.

UAW President Gary Jones was also at the bargaining table with Ms. Barra and GM President Mark Reuss, one of her top lieutenants, the people said.

Applications to some of America’s most elite business schools fell at a steeper rate this year, as universities struggled to attract international students amid changes to immigration policies and political tensions between the U.S. and China.

The declines affected some of the nation’s top-rated programs, with Harvard University, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others, all reporting larger year-over-year drops in business-school applications. Some, such as Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, posted double-digit percentage declines.

The privately owned foreign companies have increased sales with their simpler stores that offer fewer products at lower prices. In response, U.S. grocers are lowering prices on staples such as milk and eggs and adding more products the discounters aren’t known for, such as fresh foods. The battle comes as supermarkets already are fighting to keep customers from shopping more online.

“Our country has been invaded by the German retailers, and they have disrupted the ecosystem quite severely,” said John Ross, president and chief executive of IGA Inc., an association of about 600 U.S. independent grocers. He called it the biggest shift for U.S. grocers since Walmart Inc. entered the food business in 1988. Today Walmart is the biggest U.S. food seller.

Sales at “limited assortment” stores, a category that includes Trader Joe’s in addition to Aldi and Lidl, are projected to grow 5.6% annually through 2023, according to Inmar Analytics Inc., while sales at traditional...

Boeing Co. ’s boardroom shakeup puts David Calhoun, a powerful behind-the-scenes figure, in position to control the aerospace giant’s response to the 737 MAX crisis, one of the most fraught episodes in the company’s history.

Senior officials at some Boeing customers said they found the move to appoint Mr. Calhoun chairman, unveiled Friday, reassuring amid the MAX’s prolonged grounding following two deadly crashes. They said his experience in the industry and handling other challenging situations should help the Chicago plane maker navigate the turmoil as it tries to restore public confidence.

Johnson & Johnson, facing lawsuits from more than 100,000 plaintiffs over its product safety and marketing tactics, has taken the aggressive strategy of battling many of the cases in court.

And it is losing. A lot.

MUMBAI—India’s ubiquitous mom-and-pop stores are being weaponized in e-commerce wars, as Walmart Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. square off against India’s richest man in the country’s nascent online retail market.

The millions of tiny stores and stands across the country have proven tough to beat for e-commerce giants and supermarket chains looking to capture a slice of the spending of India’s middle class.

SHANGHAI—When restaurant tycoon Tilman Fertitta bought the Houston Rockets two years ago, he viewed the team’s rich history and enormous footprint in China as a reason to pay $2.2 billion, a record for a National Basketball Association team at the time.

Then the Rockets landed in China’s doghouse.

The U.S. and China said they agreed in principle on the first phase of a trade accord that could de-escalate tensions between the two economic powers, with the U.S. saying it would hold off on ramping up tariffs next week and China saying it agreed to ramp up its purchases of U.S. agricultural products.

The U.S. government is marketing the nation’s crops and meat in smaller countries as Washington and Beijing continue to spar over trade.

Ted McKinney, undersecretary for trade at the U.S. Agriculture Department, said the agency is mounting more trade missions and spending more time in lower-profile markets such as Guatemala to find buyers for a glut of U.S. farm goods that has grown over the past year as China curtailed purchases from the U.S.

The food industry is being tested by shifting consumer tastes, new technology and global trade disputes. Those are among the issues on the agenda Monday in New York at The Wall Street Journal’s Global Food Forum, which includes important players in the sector such as the chief executive of Mondelez International Inc., the president of McDonald’s U.S.A. and Cargill Inc.’s sustainability chief.

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The food industry is being tested by shifting consumer tastes, new technology and global trade disputes. Those are among the issues on the agenda Monday in New York at The Wall Street Journal’s Global Food Forum, which includes prominent players in the sector such as the chief executive of Mondelez International Inc., the president of McDonald’s U.S.A. and leaders from the U.S. Agriculture Department and the Food and Drug Administration.

The food industry is being tested by shifting consumer tastes, new technology and global trade disputes. Those are among the issues on the agenda Monday in New York at The Wall Street Journal’s Global Food Forum, which includes prominent players in the sector such as the chief executive of Mondelez International Inc., the president of McDonald’s U.S.A. and leaders from the U.S. Agriculture Department and the Food and Drug Administration.