Hints and tips:
...Spring 2001: As Yahoo is hit by the dotcom bust, chief executive Tim Koogle, who had led the company since 1995, is replaced by Warner Brothers executive Terry Semel....
...Terry Bird, from a Los Angeles law firm specialising in internal investigations, has been retained as independent counsel for the committee....
...Supporters of this view will note that Mr Yang was still fighting for the company he created, long after professional managers (and former chief executives) Terry Semel and Carol Bartz had departed....
...Tim Morse, from Silicon Valley semiconductor company Altera, will take over as Carol Bartz continues to shape her management team folowing her appointment as CEO in January....
...Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s CEO, said on Wednesday that that plan did not meet an important Yahoo criterion: that it should have “skin in the game” over the long term....
...So what is there to make of Carol Bartz’s much more lucrative package?...
...Yahoo appointed software veteran Carol Bartz as its new chief executive on Tuesday, an appointment viewed by Wall Street as safe but unspectacular. Ms Bartz, 60, takes up the position immediately....
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