While others such as Jimmy Cayne at Bear Stearns and Chuck Prince at Citi hang on for dear life, Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O’Neal has been forced to bite the bullet.
Rightly so. Any individual who, until recently, held the titles of chairman, CEO and president has the right to glory in success, but has to carry the can when things go wrong. And they don’t get much worse than a $8.4 billion write-down in one quarter.
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