When Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn resigned suddenly in April over allegations of inappropriate personal conduct, it reminded many in Corporate America of the resignation of Mark Hurd from Hewlett-Packard, an episode widely considered to have been poorly handled by H-P’s board of directors.
Yet now that the dust has settled on Best Buy’s CEO crisis, it’s looking more like the board got it right in this instance. Some even say its serves as a case study in how to handle a crisis.
