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The process by which corporate boards select, replace, or transition chief executives, via internal promotion, outside hires, or recalling past leaders.
Bob Chapek, fired as Disney CEO after less than three years, says he would turn the job down if offered again. He blames a board that brought back Bob Iger, who now sits on it while Josh D'Amaro runs the company.
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Paramount Skydance made Mattel's Ynon Kreiz co-CEO in charge of operations and its $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery integration. He brings a career built in television long before Barbie to a combined company carrying $52 billion of debt.
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Goldman's board has discussed naming John Waldron, holder of an $80 million retention bonus, CEO as soon as next year, the Wall Street Journal reported. The cost still open is keeping four senior executives who would be passed over.
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Meta hired MongoDB chief CJ Desai on Sept. 28 to run a new unit selling Muse agents and models to businesses, sending MongoDB shares down 18.5%. Other SaaS stocks fell too, so investors are already pricing Meta as a rival for business software budgets.
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Goldman Sachs' board has discussed COO John Waldron replacing CEO David Solomon around the end of next year or early 2028, the Wall Street Journal reported. He helped build the strategy he would inherit, though Semafor expects any real change to come on his watch.
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MongoDB made Dev Ittycheria, who ran it for eleven years, interim CEO after CJ Desai left immediately for a senior role at Meta. For MDB holders the risk that comes back is succession, with the permanent job open for the second time in under two years.
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Greg Abel has run Berkshire since the turn of the year, but Warren Buffett publicly claims paternity of the position that now ranks third in its portfolio. That gap is the question for boards mid-handover.
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Cook's successor spent 25 years making hardware fit together, and he inherits an iPhone event next week plus a Siri rebuild that runs on Gemini. The pairing says what Apple now thinks its job is.
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Russell Reynolds mapped 196 European exits and found that a single chief executive change tracks almost no difference in average hold period, while the delayed and repeated ones are where the risk sits.
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Fortune's 50-year data set puts services above a quarter of this year's revenue and 2025 profit at about $112 billion, up from roughly $2 billion in 2006. Fortune puts the new CEO's test on the data-centre buildout Apple has skipped.
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Sean Gray takes over the $22.3 billion-asset Massachusetts bank a year after its merger of equals. The promised $52 million of after-tax cost savings was booked in July, and the shares still fell more than 6.7% on Monday.
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A Seeking Alpha analyst values Berkshire Hathaway at $1.18 trillion, about 8% above its market cap, and rests the bull case on Greg Abel putting $10 billion into Alphabet and $6.8 billion into Taylor Morrison. He is long the stock.
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The Conference Board puts 35% of this year's Russell 3000 forced departures in health care. The same report has forced exits taking a smaller share of 2026 successions than in either prior year, and no single industry profile.
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Matt Mullenweg went on leave last Thursday and was back by Saturday, with CFO Mark Davies standing in between the two notices. The company timed the absence to the minute and has declined to explain what changed.
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Wachtell Lipton counts six US activist campaigns reaching a vote through August 2026, down from nine a year earlier, and says settlements now often land before the activist has agitated in public.
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The operator boards copied for twenty years spent 1993 to 2003 in product and engineering jobs. SaaStr counts 82 of the 100 fastest-growing AI-native startups with a technical CEO, against 49% of the 2013 unicorn class.
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Apple unveils the foldable iPhone on Wednesday under a US$570 billion summer rally and a chief executive who started on Sept. 1. Morgan Stanley's own numbers leave most of the quarter's iPhone revenue with the ordinary models.
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Leggings are about a third of Lululemon's $11 billion in revenue and its best margin, so a 20% quarterly drop accounts for more than half of the 12% North American comparable-sales decline Heidi O'Neill inherited on Tuesday.
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Matt Mullenweg told Automattic's company-wide Announcements channel that the board is back in agreement and he is in control. By Friday the CFO named acting interim CEO no longer had a working Slack account.
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Oracle's AI growth story and its slipped data center date both sit with one co-CEO, Clay Magouyrk. The founder's two senior titles are unchanged, so what the October program settles is who sells Oracle.
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