Carol Bartz who is the new CEO of Yahoo, gives herself a B-minus in her premiere year as CEO of Yahoo! Inc., saying she could have moved faster to reorganize the online company and strike a Web-search agreement with software giant Microsoft Corp.
“It was a little tougher internally than I think I had initially thought,” Carol Bartz, 61, said in an interview at Yahoo’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. “I moved quickly, but this is a big job.”
Carol Bartz, who marks her one-year anniversary as CEO next week, is striving to keep Yahoo’s 15-year-old site relevant in an era of Twitter and Facebook. Yahoo’s sales have decreased for four consecutive quarters, and its stock trailed the Nasdaq in the past year. Carol Bartz expects Yahoo’s sales and profit to grow in 2010 as it makes some acquisitions and improves its products.
BusinessWeek – Carol Bartz -Yahoo CEO – Gives Herself Low Grade in her 1st Year
