Time for #Twitter CEO ‘to go’, Says Harvard Business Professor

Time for Twitter CEO ‘to go’, Says Harvard Business Professor

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is having something of an annus horribilis.

Twitter’s stock is down 40 percent for the year. Interest in the platform is declining worldwide. When Costolo’s family trust sold the last of their Twitter shares earlier this month, investors didn’t like it – so much so that Twitter’s stock price rallied when rumours started to circulate that he was stepping down.

Now, Harvard Business School professor Bill George is calling for Costolo’s head, and it might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

Speaking to CNBC on Friday, George was openly critical about Costolo’s situation at Twitter.

“It’s

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