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High profile managers -- Meg Whitman
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Margaret Cushing Whitman was born in 1956 in Cold Springs Harbor, New York to Margaret Cushing and Hendricks Hallett Whitman. She went to Cold Spring Harbor High School, which she graduated in three years, being one at the top of her class.
Whitman had wanted to become a doctor and even enrolled in the math and science classes and the Princeton University. During one summer vacation however, she was attracted to economics due to an activity of selling advertisements for a magazine. She as such dropped out of medical preparation and started to study economics. She earned a B.A. cum laudae and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1979.
Throughout her career, Meg Whitman has occupied several functions, some of the more notable of them including:
Leading positions in several firms, such as toy company Hasbro Inc., flower products company FTD Inc., footwear company The Stride Rite Corporation, entertainment firm the Walt Disney Company or consulting firm Bain & Company.
President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay Inc., from 1998 through 2008
Part time strategic advisor to Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers, a firm activating in the private equity sector
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She had been with the firm since 1998, when eBay employed 30 staffs and generated $4 million in revenues. Upon her departure, the company was employing 150,000 staffs and generating $8 billion in revenues (Santa Maria Times, 2009).
The managerial style of Meg Whitman while at eBay had been characterized by structure and vision. She took the product the company had created and assigned executives in charge of all aspects related to the product and the management of the firm. She was also in charge of company expansion, listing on the stock exchange market and the purchase and sale of Skype (for a considerable gain for eBay).
In 2007, Whitman resigned from her position at the auction website, but remained as an advisor to the new CEO until 2008. She stated that her time at eBay had been personally and professional beneficial, but that ten years was sufficient time to be spent in one institution. She also added that the move would be good for herself and the company, which was in need of a new leadership style and a new vision, in order to further evolve (Kopytoff, 2008).
The leadership style implemented by Meg Whitman represents the primary reason for her success and popularity within the business…
