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Morning Brief Podcast: Why are Consumer co CEOs losing their jobs?

Morning Brief Podcast: Why are Consumer co CEOs losing their jobs?

Economic Times22-07-2025
It's been a turbulent fortnight for corporate leadership, with sudden CEO exits at companies like HUL, Coca Cola bottler HCCB, L'Oréal, Diageo, Kenvue and WPP. In this episode of The Morning Brief, host Ratna Bhushan speaks to ET's Associate Editor Arijit Barman and Vibhav Dhawan, Partner at Positive Moves Consulting to unpack what's driving this churn: from slowing demand to soaring competition, from tariff pressures to slackening control over ad networks, from a lack of focus on growth to a pu
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sh for next-gen leadership. Why is the top job turning into a revolving door? Are CEOs fall guys? Is the traditional playbook outdated? And are short tenures the new normal? Listen in.
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