Experts’ Articles
Yum! Brands’ David Novak
(09/05/2012)
Yum! Brands’ David Novak has a secret for staying on his leadership toes: the “hot-shot-replaces-me” scenario. “I think, ‘If someone replaced me tomorrow, what would he or she do?’” explains the CEO of the world’s largest restaurant company, which encompasses the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell brands. “Since I like my job, why don’t I do it first?”
Claudio Gonzalez
(23/04/2012)
Claudio Gonzalez, 72, is one of the few remaining members of a vanishing breed of senior business figures that have won both deep respect at home and a strong international reputation abroad. From 1973 to 2008, he served as CEO of Kimberly-Clark de Mexico and continues today as that company’s non-executive chairman. (The company is a highly profitable joint venture, with the American parent owning 48 percent and Gonzalez as the principal Mexican shareholder.)
John Donahoe’s Transformational Adventure
(17/04/2012)
Eight years into her tenure as eBay CEO, Meg Whitman called her former Bain & Co. colleague, John Donahoe, to interest him in coming to the San Jose, California startup to learn the business and maybe take over after she completed her tenth year. She had no successor and the eBay board wanted her to name one
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