Bill Gates yang baru saja datang ke Indonesia, akhirnya menunjuk CEO untuk foundation-nya. Berikut adalah beritanya, lengkap dengan beberapa kalimat menarik. Sila baca:
Business.view | Fitting the Bill? | Economist.com
Business.view | Fitting the Bill? | Economist.com
Many people inside and outside the foundation hope that Mr Gates will concentrate on sharpening the foundation’s strategies as it seeks to reduce global poverty and improve health worldwide and education in America. Observers of the foundation think its growth has sometimes been too scattergun and logically inconsistent.
It has grown so quickly that it has struggled to find worthy organisations to partner with to achieve its goals, and foundation staffers have sometimes been too enticed by their own pet projects. While the cat’s away, mice will play. If Mr Gates focuses on strategy and Mrs Gates on the headquarters building project, Mr Raikes may find himself in charge of ensuring that day-to-day operations are carried out efficiently.
Mr Raikes is the latest in a growing list of seasoned business executives leaving for charities—Ms Stonesifer, another former Microsoft executive, started the trend, but it has only recently picked up steam. Last year, Omidyar Network, the philanthropic organisation set up by the founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar, recruited Matt Bannick from eBay to be its managing partner. The venerable Ford Foundation has recently appointed Luis Ubinas, a former executive at McKinsey, to be its president. And Mr Raikes joins other refugees from the corporate world at the Gates Foundation—Alexander Friedman, formerly of Lazard, an investment bank, is its CFO and Tadataka Yamada, formerly of GlaxoSmithKline, is head of its global public health program.
Salaries are rising fast in the foundation world, and today’s philanthropists understand the importance of using their money in a businesslike fashion. With millions of people depending on the Gates Foundation for the basic necessities of life, and perhaps even life itself, efficiency is not a dirty word, it is an imperative, even more important than in business. Here’s hoping Mr Raikes can deliver it.
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