Tag Archives: New CEO

Why Michael Huseby For Barnes & Noble CEO Job?

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Barnes & Noble has a new CEO: Michael Huseby, who was most recently running the company’s Nook digital media division in the wake of the departure of CEO William Lynch in July 2013 but joined the...
    






Former Football Coach’s DataStax Doubles As It Beats Oracle

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One of the oldest cliches in the book is that if you can win at team sports, you can win at business too. You don’t have to look much farther than the spectacular failure of former Red Sox pitcher...
    






Pandora Mines Music Data Trove For Better Ads

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A few months ago, I spoke with Eric Bieschke, Pandora’s’ Chief Scientist, for a story about the company’s approach to analyzing the music listening data it gleans from its 72 million active...
    






Three Reasons Apple Should Outperform The Market In 2014

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Tim Cook gets paid more if Apple stock outperforms the S&P 500 index in 2014. His compensation is structured in a way that pays him more when his efforts reward shareholders. What’s not for...
    






Five Of The Smartest Retail Moves In 2013

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Retailers reeled from all manner of missteps, blunders and outright fiasco’s this year – from Abercrombie & Fitch’s image battering no-large-sizes ethos to J.C. Penney’s sales hemorrhaging coupon...
    






New Leader Ideas 2013: Get The Job. Onboard Well. Be BRAVE.

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Looking back at the New Leader’s Playbook articles that got the most traction in 2013, it’s clear that readers’ interests are strongest in three areas: sharpening interview skills to get the job,...
    






The Pros Pick Two Offbeat Cleantech Stocks for 2014

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Among the dozen stocks picked by my panel of professional green money managers for 2014, most followed three themes: Solar stocks, IT stocks, and income stocks.  Two didn’t, and they are included...
    






Challenges Of Buying And Selling Art Online

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In a new ArtTactic podcast, Sean Moriaty, the new CEO of Saatchi Online, talks about the challenges facing the ever increasing number of e-commerce platforms selling art. One rather obvious...