Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

And federal age discrimination actions filed annually increased 66% between 1999 and 2011. Digital technology, one of the world's fastest-growing and most lucrative sectors, is popular with consumers of all ages. The organizational "geography" also matters — chief marketing officer versus chief financial officer.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Founded in 1928, Motorola diversified over the decades from car radios into a host of communication technologies, ranging from equipment aboard Apollo 11 to the best-selling RAZR mobile phones. Amply rewarded for their activism, Icahn and his allies exited the boardroom, but a new activist investor soon came knocking.

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 11