Business

The week’s winners and losers

WINNERS

BONNIE HAMMER

Won battle to become boss of all NBCU cable channels.

LEON BLACK

Caesars Entertainment, controlled by his Apollo hedge fund, soared 65% last week. Let it ride!

RALPH LAUREN

Proving green is always in style, designer upped his profits 27% in the quarter.

LOSERS

TERRY McGRAW

McGraw-Hill CEO sees Justice Dept. threaten S&P unit with $5 billion in penalties. Nothing to do with the downgrade of US debt, of course.

RON JOHNSON

Troubled JCPenney’s CEO to fire 300, sources say.

DAVID NOVAK

Yum! CEO has Yuck! quarter, due to KFC’s China chicken kerfuffle.