In Dow Jones's locker.(chief executive officer of Dow Jones Peter Kann may be fired)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, October, 1998
Peter Kann is close to getting the sack for the way he has run Dow Jones. The Internet may vindicate him
PLOT Dow Jones's share price against the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the past seven years, and you come to a conclusion embarrassing to the company's management and annoying to its shareholders: that, in a brand-worshipping age, the company whose name is most closely associated with the bull market has failed to share in it. That is why some of the company's shareholders (including members of the Bancroft family, which still exercises control) are so discontented with the way it has been run; and why Ken Burenga, Dow Jones's president and chief operating officer, was pushed into early retirement on October 21st. His is only one of the scalps that the...
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