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Managing across the Corporate Life Cycle: CEOs and Stock Prices!

Musings on Markets

While the impulse to become young again is understandable, the odds are against this gamble working, leaving the CEO tarnished and company worse off, in the aftermath. In short, Jobs was able to continue to put his visionary skills to work, while Cook made sure that the promises Jobs made were delivered as products on the ground.

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META Lesson 1: Corporate Governance

Musings on Markets

To understand why talk about corporate governance at Facebook has been muted for much of its corporate life, and why it is a prime topic of conversation now, let's retrace Facebook's journey, over the last decade, from a young VC-backed private company to a high-profile public company. What are the checks on these conflicts of interest?