Last month, 96 CEO changes were announced by U.S. based companies, reports job-services firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, among them the heads of Google and Advanced Micro Devices. The number is down 9% from December, but 8% h…
The number of chief executive officers leaving their posts in October fell to its lowest level in 18 months, according to a new report released today. The drop seems to show that the volatile job market, at least among corporat…
It’s not unusual for a departing chief exec to maintain some involvement with the corporation he or she led, usually by holding onto or taking a position on the company’s board of directors.
That can be a bad idea. Consider GM’…
Considering how often airline industry executives complain about how hard it is to run a profitable carrier, one might expect their efforts could go unrewarded — at least monetarily. Not so at the new United Continental Holdin…
Former Cisco Systems senior vice president Tony Bates has answered Skype’s call for a new leader. He’s signed on as the Internet-telephone service’s CEO, replacing Josh Silverman, who had headed eBay’s Shopping.com division bef…