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When Does the Buck Stop?

Harvard Business Review

Or to put it another way: every CEO says that the buck stops with them. And if it should stop with the CEO, just when should it stop? Weldon is CEO of Johnson&Johnson (J&J), which firmly established itself as one of the world's most trusted companies following the famous Tylenol scare in the 1980s. Weldon did take action.

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