The chief executive of Waste Management runs a company worth tens of billions of dollars, yet he has spent nights riding garbage trucks and sitting through 1 a.m. safety briefings to understand what ...

For a night owl like Waste Management CEO Jim Fish, waking up for 1 a.m. safety briefings could make for a brutally long day. But Fish did it because his late father-in-law, a union pipe fitter, told ...