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Office Depot Makes Changes In Leadership Team

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Office Depot has made some key changes in its leadership team, including naming a new chief digital officer. Calkins was previously Office Depot’s executive VP and chief legal officer and has also been responsible for the company’s contract sales business and Canadian operations. He will also oversee the copy and print business.

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Intuit Selects Its New CFO

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We are fortunate to have benefitted from Neil’s leadership for more than a decade. Michelle is a talented professional whose experience and leadership make her a natural and excellent successor to Neil. Its small business online revenue also jumped by 30 percent, Intuit said.

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Here Are 35 Casualties Of The Retail Apocalypse And Why They Failed

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Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Digital laggards – Many big-box retailers either failed or were too late to establish an online presence. In 2017 to date, we have seen 21 bankruptcies.

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Hackers No Match For Designer Handbags

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The letter went on to state: “The board has not only destroyed significant shareholder value but has presided over an extended period of poor stock price performance, poor operating performance and a substantial deterioration in EBITDA margins.”. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods and Sierra Trading Post — and online. percent and down 8.4

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

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Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, When mobile phone company Danger Inc was created in the heady days of 2000 with execs from Apple, Phillips, and WebTV, it looked like a leadership dream team.

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ID.me CEO: From Fighting Al Qaeda In Iraq To Fighting IDV Back Home

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Good leadership, he said, is good leadership, both on the battlefield and in the boardroom. When his brigade first deployed in July 2006, Hall said its success rate was less than half the average (and the theater average was only 44 percent). The military was an incredible laboratory for leadership,” Hall said. “It

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17 Of The Biggest Startup Frauds Of All Time

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Pixelon: Online video vaporware. Rishi Shah and Shradha Agarwal founded healthcare information startup Outcome Health in 2006 while the pair were still studying at Illinois’ Northwestern University. Founded by Renaud Laplanche in 2006, LendingClub quickly became one of the largest online lenders in the US.

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