Editor's Pick: The One Man Who Could Save Intel

The One Man Who Could Save Intel

Rob Enderle Jan 22, 2018 10:12 AM PT

Do boards think CEO is a throwaway job? Considering that boards used to have a ton of ex-CEOs on them, and given the historic bad choices that have badly hurt or destroyed companies, you'd think someone would have developed a decent process to pick a good CEO. You'd think that firms at least would learn from their mistakes. Intel now seems to have the second bad CEO since founder Andy Grove left. [More...]

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