Gillette’s Kilts says do the right thing: Reuters Business News - MSN Money
Gillette’s Kilts says do the right thing: Reuters Business News - MSN Money
In “Doing What Matters” (Crown $27.50) Kilts describes his first days at Gillette in 2001 sifting through suggestions for turning around the razor and battery maker which had missed its quarterly earnings estimates for four years and whose stock had dropped 62 percent in two years. Among the options were divesting the struggling Duracell battery business; holding on to Duracell but slashing prices; divesting other businesses; entering new product sectors; or selling the entire company.