The Rise of the COO
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2011
Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. Appointing a COO is a recent trend on the continent. When we analyzed the careers of all the incumbent CEOs of the companies in our sample, we found that only 23 of them had previously been COOs.
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