Corporate headhunters - The Economist

2/26/2020

Take me to a leader - Corporate headhunters are more powerful than ever | Briefing | The Economist

time. His voice barely rose over the mellow music of a Manhattan hotel’s bar but nonetheless it carried a bass note of self-importance.

The rm got the job done. Javier Pérez-Tasso, swift ’s former Americas head,

took over as boss in July. Marc Bayle de Jessé, an ocial at the European Central Bank, started at cls in December. The placements testify to the brokering brawn of executive-search rms. The industry’s top tier is busier than ever. The bosses of 311 of America’s 3,600 listed rms left their jobs in 2019—the highest share on record. Someone needs to nd their replacements.

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