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Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!

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Insightful chronicle of leadership and corporate struggle.

If you're fascinated by the high-stakes world of tech giants, "Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!" offers a gripping inside look at corporate drama and leadership challenges. Nicholas Carlson's award-winning reporting paints a nuanced picture of Mayer's tenure at Yahoo. It could be a perfect read for those interested in the intricacies of the tech industry and the complexities of turning around a struggling company.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!

Regular price ₱490.05
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ISBN: 9781444789898
Authors: Nicholas Carlson
Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON
Date of Publication: 2015-01-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.91
(rated by 1724 readers)

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A page-turning narrative about Marissa Mayer's efforts to remake Yahoo as well as her own rise from Stanford University undergrad to CEO of a $30 billion corporation by the age of 38. When Yahoo hired star Google executive Mayer to be its CEO in 2012, employees rejoiced. They put posters on the walls throughout Yahoo's California headquarters. On them, there was Mayer's face and one word: HOPE. But one year later, Mayer sat in front of those same employees in a huge cafeteria on Yahoo's campus and took the beating of her life. Her hair wet and her tone defensive, Mayer read and answered a series of employee-posed questions challenging the basic elements of her plan. There was anger in the room and, behind it, a question: Was Mayer actually going to be able to do this thing? Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! is the inside story of how Yahoo got into such awful shape in the first place, Marissa Mayer's controversial rise at Google, and her desperate fight to save an Internet icon. In August 2011, hedge fund billionaire Daniel Loeb took a long look at Yahoo and decided to go to war with its management and board of directors. Loeb then bought a 5% stake and began a shareholder activist campaign that would cost the jobs of three CEOs before he finally settled on Google's golden girl Mayer to unlock the value lurking in
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Insightful chronicle of leadership and corporate struggle.

If you're fascinated by the high-stakes world of tech giants, "Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!" offers a gripping inside look at corporate drama and leadership challenges. Nicholas Carlson's award-winning reporting paints a nuanced picture of Mayer's tenure at Yahoo. It could be a perfect read for those interested in the intricacies of the tech industry and the complexities of turning around a struggling company.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.