Thursday, February 9, 2012

Seeking Alpha: An Unexpected Change In Leadership At Stryker

Management matters in every industry, and there's no question that Stryker (SYK) has benefited from a long run of quality CEOs. In a fairly shocking announcement Wednesday night, Stryker announced that CEO Stephen MacMillan was resigning (effective immediately) for unspecified family reasons. Not only had MacMillan been a very good CEO for Stryker, but the company now finds itself looking for a new top kick at a time when it is still trying to work itself out of a slump in orthopedics and execute on some reasonably ambitious quality improvement and cost-cutting targets for 2012.

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An Unexpected Change In Leadership At Stryker

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