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Becoming CEO of a public company once held nothing but allure for those fortunate enough to ascend. But today's CEO must shun conventional wisdom and wade through myriad complex regulations. It's no picnic.
Recent CEO successions are shining a bright light on a crop of talented individuals who will have to steer their public companies successfully through choppy economic, legal and regulatory waters. To do so, this generation of leaders will be required to have granular knowledge of how technology, economics, regulation and the capital markets can play for, or against, them.
The newly anointed CEOs include PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi, its first woman chief executive and the top-ranking woman of the...