Reed Hastings of Netflix topped his list, which also included Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie of Research in Motion and Leo Apotheker, former CEO of H-P.
“Poor Reed Hastings. He followed almost textbook strategy,” when he decided to split Netflix into two segments, Finkelstein said.
“But he made a couple of mistakes along the way. … I don’t think there was any preparation. And then he raised the prices like crazy at the same time.”
Read the full story, published on 12/13/11 by The Daily Ticker, a Yahoo Finance blog.