Frank O'Connell is a Senior Partner with The Parthenon Group. O'Connell has extensive operating experience running and repositioning companies, as well as leading turnaround initiatives. He most recently served as CEO and Chairman of the Board for Indian Motorcycle.
Previously, Mr. O'Connell was Chairman, President and CEO of Gibson Greetings, Inc. Mr. O'Connell has led other branded companies including Reebok, HBO Video and Skybox International. He spent the first 14 years of his career running food companies and developing brands.
During this panel discussion on the Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship & Business to an undergraduate class at Cornell University, ...
Frank O'Connell received his B.S. in Economics and his M.B.A from Cornell University.
In my case I think it's been going into corporations is bold moves and speed. An example is, I was brought into Nike... brought into Reebok in late '89 and Nike was just beating the crap out of us and we were losing share badly. We had no new product. It was taking us two years to get a product t...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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