Nike’s outgoing chief executive, John Donahoe, is an Ivy League-educated former tech executive and Bain consultant. The man who will take his place, Elliott Hill, started at Nike as an intern and spent his entire career at “the swoosh”, bar a brief stint as an assistant trainer for the Dallas Cowboys football team.
The difference in profiles is stark, and one that Nike hopes will reassure shareholders while energising staff for the monumental task ahead — shaking off an existential…
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