The news traveled quickly across Nike’s sprawling headquarters in Beaverton, Ore. Elliott Hill was coming back. Employees high-fived. An audible cheer could be heard in parts of Nike’s 400-acre campus. Current and former employees lit up group chats and social media. On Wall Street, investors joined the celebration, sending Nike shares up roughly 8% in
When Kellyn Smith Kenny joined AT&T as CMO in November 2020, she joined a company whose identity was about to change dramatically. AT&T had spent years expanding into entertainment, including its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, and owned satellite television provider DirecTV. By the time Kenny arrived, that strategy was giving way to a
