Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. For example, Terry Semel, who succeeded Tim Koogle as CEO of Yahoo in 2001, had a media marketing background at Warner Brothers.
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