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Role, challenges of CEO changing quickly

Excerpt from The Journal Gazette – May 26, 2014

Elaine Hughes, founder and CEO of E.A. Hughes, an executive search firm that specializes in retailing, said Target needs to look outside the clothing industry, and can’t just use the “same Rolodex” as the retail industry keeps using.

 

Role, challenges of CEO changing quickly
Article by Anne D’Innocenzio, Associated Press

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Big Retailers Find It Hard Shopping for a CEO

Excerpt from online.WSJ.com – May 6, 2011

“There are not a lot of sitting CEO candidates who have had extensive experience managing both brick and mortar and online,” said Elaine Hughes, head of E.A. Hughes & Co., a small search firm that specializes in retail. Meanwhile, she said, the number of retailers seeking new leaders “is the most we have seen in five years.”

 

Big Retailers Find It Hard Shopping for a CEO
Article by Paul Ziobro and Joann S. Lublin