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Revision as of 20:22, 8 September 2011
Roy J. Bostock is the Chairman of the Board for Yahoo! Inc. since January 2008. He also serves on the boards of directors of Morgan Stanley and Northwest Airlines. From 2000 to 2001 he served as chairman of the advertising firm BCom3 Group, Inc. He is the chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and a former trustee of Duke University. Bostock is a 1962 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Duke, where he was an English Literature major and a member of the varsity baseball and football teams. He and his wife have donated more than $8 million to Duke, and are the namesakes of Duke's Bostock Library. [1] Bostock also received an MBA from Harvard Business School.
On September 6, 2011 Bostock fired Carol Bartz as CEO of Yahoo by reading a prepared legal letter to her over the telephone. A large Yahoo shareholder has called for Bostock's resignation, accusing him of poor judgment in opposing Microsoft's proposed purchase of Yahoo and the hiring of Bartz.
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Carol had a few choice words about Bostock in a susequent interview with Fortune.