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Feb 28, 1998

Disclosing CEO illness

A sensitive issue at the top

Your CEO has just been diagnosed with a potentially terminal disease: she may have six months or six years. She's come to discuss what you should say to the financial community. Should you disclose immediately? Should you wait to see how she responds to treatment? A CEO's illness can be material news that will have an impact on the stock price; especially if the CEO has turned that company around or been key to its success. Take, for example, Disney's Eisner, Microsoft's Gates, or Berkshire

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Morgan Molthrop

Morgan Molthrop is vice president of investor relations at Infonet Services Corp in California
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