Why Skills-First Leadership Is Replacing the Ivy League Playbook in the C-Suite
05/23/2025
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The old prestige pyramid—where Ivy League degrees and blue-chip consulting backgrounds paved the way to the CEO seat—is cracking.
July 26, 2021: -On Friday, European stocks advanced as investors digested a slew of economic data from across the continent, with a fresh round of corporate earnings.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 increased 0.8% this morning, with autos adding 2.3% to lead gains as all sectors and major bourses came in positive territory.
On Friday, July’s flash PMI (purchasing managers’ index) readings showed eurozone business activity growing at its fastest pace in more than two decades, as to ease of social restrictions and expansion of vaccination programs discovered pent-up demand.
According to official figures published Friday, U.K. retail sales grew 0.5% in June after a surprise pullback in May. However, the economic recovery of the country ran into a wall in July as the number of people instructed to isolate by the test-and-trace app of the government soared because of the rising infections. The IHS Markit/CIPS flash PMI decreased to 57.7 in July from 62.2 in June.
Earnings season keeps growing to gather steam in Europe, with Thales, Signify, and Lonza among those reporting second-quarter results on Friday. Vodafone issued a trading update, and Mercedes-Benz has announced a strategy update this afternoon.
Shares in Asia-Pacific retreated overnight as Chinese tech shares in Hong Kong pulled back sharply amid concerns over stricter regulation. Stateside, stock futures inched cautiously higher, with Wall Street seeking its fourth consecutive day of gains as markets continue to rebound from a sharp sell-off on Monday.
Back in Europe, the European Central Bank held its monetary policy steady following a meeting of the Governing Council on Wednesday but sharpened its rhetoric and vowed a “persistently accommodative” stance in light of its new inflation target.
There was a division among members over whether to alter the central bank’s forward guidance. Still, hawkish National Bank of Belgium Governor Pierre Wunsch told CNBC on Friday that his dissent should not be “dramatized.”
Brexit has reared its head once again after the EU rejected the U.K.’s call to reopen negotiations over the Northern Ireland Protocol, a vital feature of the withdrawal agreement that saw the U.K. left the EU in 2020.
The old prestige pyramid—where Ivy League degrees and blue-chip consulting backgrounds paved the way to the CEO seat—is cracking.
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