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Who Will Be Yahoo's Next CEO?
Current forecast: Other external hire (69% chance
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Combining all predictions, the current most likely outcome is Other external hire with a probability of 69% (down 1% in last 1 day)
TechCrunch is speculating on who is going to take the top spot at Yahoo. They say:
Yang will step down, our sources say. It may be next week or it may be next month, but it’s going to happen. But who in the world would take the job given the state of Yahoo today? It would have to be someone there already, no outsider would want the job. Right? Well, maybe not.
President Sue Decker is considered to be too close to Yang, and lacking in operational experience. Other Yahoo execs are also unlikely candidates. But the names of two ex-Yahoo’ers are being tossed around as people who may consider the job, and who may be able to fire up the troops enough to give Yahoo a fighting chance. Those people are Jeff Mallet, Yahoo’s former President. And Dan Rosensweig, Yahoo’s former COO.
This question will be settled as Yahoo's next full time CEO. If there is an interim CEO then the market will only be settled as that person if they are subsequently made permanant.
Yang will step down, our sources say. It may be next week or it may be next month, but it’s going to happen. But who in the world would take the job given the state of Yahoo today? It would have to be someone there already, no outsider would want the job. Right? Well, maybe not.
President Sue Decker is considered to be too close to Yang, and lacking in operational experience. Other Yahoo execs are also unlikely candidates. But the names of two ex-Yahoo’ers are being tossed around as people who may consider the job, and who may be able to fire up the troops enough to give Yahoo a fighting chance. Those people are Jeff Mallet, Yahoo’s former President. And Dan Rosensweig, Yahoo’s former COO.
This question will be settled as Yahoo's next full time CEO. If there is an interim CEO then the market will only be settled as that person if they are subsequently made permanant.
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As reported by a major mainstream news source. This question will be settled as Yahoo's next full time CEO. If there is an interim CEO then the market will only be settled as that person if they are subsequently made permanant.
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Initial likelihoods: Jeff Mallett: 20%, Dan Rosensweig: 15%, Sue Decker: 10%, Other Yahoo insider: 5%, Other external hire: 50%
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score: 10
Advertising Age 1 week ago
M chief executive Rob Norman. It's also one of the toughest: succeeding Jerry Yang as CEO of Yahoo. Yet there is no shortage of boldface media names -- including News Corp.'s Peter Chernin, former Viacom chief Tom Freston and Google's Tim Armstrong --
score: 10
Boston Globe 2 weeks ago
DALLAS - Yahoo Inc. investors say the search to replace chief executive Jerry Yang should focus on a turnaround specialist from outside the Internet company who could draw Microsoft Corp. back into takeover
score: 10
CHINAdaily 2 weeks ago
A pedestrian passes a Yahoo sign at its headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Bloomberg News Yahoo Inc investors say the search to replace Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang should focus on a turnaround artist from outside
score: 10
CNN Money 2 weeks ago
To find the right replacement for Jerry Yang, Yahoo's board needs to figure out where it's going first. SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) -- Tech industry watchers are already speculating on replacements for Jerry Yang, but a
score: 10
Fortune 2 weeks ago
SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) -- Tech industry watchers are already speculating on replacements for Jerry Yang, but a new chief executive for Yahoo won't likely be named until well into the new year. Yang announced Monday that he will step down as CEO when
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CEO Candidates
Yahoo President Susan Decker is a candidate for Yang’s job, said Brad Williams, a spokesman for Yahoo. Yang, 40, will stay on the board and remain CEO until Yahoo finds a replacement, Yahoo said yesterday. He took the top job at the 13-year-old Internet company in June 2007.
“He played one too many poker hands up there and got caught,” said Pat Becker of Becker Capital Management in Portland, Oregon. His firm owns Microsoft shares but not Yahoo. “Microsoft still believes that it needs scale” in the online advertising business.
Microsoft spokesman Bill Cox declined to comment. The Redmond, Washington-based company will hold its annual meeting for shareholders tomorrow.
There isn’t a timeframe on finding a replacement for Yang, Yahoo’s Williams said. Yang had been in discussions with the board about seeking a replacement for “some time.” He will return to his position of Chief Yahoo when a successor is found.
Other potential candidates include Jonathan Miller, the former chairman of AOL; Dan Rosensweig, once Yahoo’s operations chief; and Meg Whitman the former chief of Internet auctioneer EBay Inc., UBS analyst Ben Schachter said in a report today.
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