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After a New CEO, the CFO Is More Than Twice as Likely to Be Gone Within a Year
The finance chief is supposed to be the steady hand through a change at the top. Nearly two years of filings say otherwise: after a new chief executive, the finance chair empties at more than twice the usual rate, more often than not within six months.
Everyone Remembers Steve Jobs. Most Founders Who Came Back Trailed the Market.
HubSpot called back Brian Halligan this week to refound the company. Of 13 founder comebacks at US companies since 1997 that can be measured, eight have trailed the market. The one everyone cites is the one least like the rest.
Who Should Run Nvidia? Not Another Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang has resigned and Nvidia's board is searching inside and out. The instinct is to find another visionary. The filings describe a different job: a chipmaker that is now also a giant buyer of memory and factory capacity, and a backer of its customers' data centers.
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