ANNOUNCED TODAY, April 16: THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: why are we not surprised?
Johnson and Johnson missed its chance to have a female CEO, Dartmouth alumna Sheri McCoy. The pharma company’s loss is Avon’s gain — and McCoy will speak next Tuesday, April 17, 4:30 p.m. at the Carl A. Fields Center.
Sheri McCoy (left) was slated — no doubt long ago — to speak at the Keller Center on the 17th. She had been in the horse race — competing with Alex Gorsky — to replace William Weldon at the top job at Johnson & Johnson. Gorsky (a West Point graduate with a Wharton MBA) won in February.
On Monday McCoy (a chemist from UMass-Dartmouth, with a master’s from Princeton and an MBA from Rutgers) was named to replace Princeton alumna Andrea Jung as Avon’s CEO. Jung remains as board chairman
I liked Jung when I heard her speak at the Rothman Institute in 2009 (right), and her plans to storm overseas markets sounded good then — but apparently they didn’t work out. Here are the details of McCoy’s talk, as listed by the Keller Center. I’m wondering if they will need to change the venue to a bigger space!
The School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Keller Center are pleased to host the G. S. Beckwith Gilbert ’63 Lecture with Sheri S. McCoy *82, Vice Chairman, Executive Committee, Johnson & Johnson. Sheri began her Johnson & Johnson career in 1982 as a scientist in the research and development organization supporting the Consumer women’s health business. In her most recent at Johnson & Johnson, Sheri led the organization through a period of significant product launches, acquisitions and partnerships, and pipeline advances, while managing through significant loss of patent exclusivity. She is a passionate advocate for diversity of thought, leadership development, employee engagement and customer focus. This lecture is open to the public and a reception will follow.
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