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The executive-chair handover is becoming the default

In a single week, three large US organisations named new chief executives and kept the outgoing leader in the boardroom as executive chair. The model buys continuity, but it asks a lot of both people.

By WCRC Leaders Editorial Desk

HDFC Bank hires its next chief executive from its biggest rival

India's largest private-sector bank has turned to Anup Bagchi, a 34-year ICICI Group veteran, to succeed Sashidhar Jagdishan. The choice says as much about bench strength and culture as it does about the man.

By WCRC Leaders Editorial Desk

Boston Dynamics picks an AI-model leader to run a robot company

By hiring the scientist who led Amazon's Nova models, the Hyundai-owned robot maker is signalling where it thinks the value in physical AI will sit: in the intelligence, not only the machine.

By WCRC Leaders Editorial Desk

Firsts and exits: women at the top this month

Two organisations named their first women chief executives in the same week that one of the defence industry's best-known leaders set a date to step back. The routes these women took to the top tell their own story.

By WCRC Leaders Editorial Desk

The Gulf's C-suite churn

A busy third quarter put new chief executives and chairs in charge of some of the Gulf's most important state-linked companies and regulators. Many of the moves ended long interim periods.

By WCRC Leaders Editorial Desk