He entered Abbott through a finance development program in 1993. By the time Rob Michael became AbbVie’s second CEO, he had spent three decades learning the business he would inherit.
She learned commerce at her parents’ art booths and chose accounting for its order. At Best Buy, Corie Barry built a career by taking on work she had not planned to do - including the top job.
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