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Duke CEO Resigns After 1 Day—With $44.4M

Board preferred old boss's management style

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 6, 2012 12:37 PM CDT

(Newser) – Hours after Bill Johnson became CEO of Duke Energy, its board sought his resignation—which it received at 12:01am the day after he took the job. Such a quick change is practically unknown in US history, the Wall Street Journal notes—and nearly as...   Read full story »

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CEO • Duke Energy Corp. • strange stuff • Bill Johnson • Jim Rogers

 
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