Word: mccolough
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close with word that he was stepping out of day-today management, would devote himself to "long-range planning." And "with a sense that this is a great milestone for Xerox," he announced that his title of chief executive officer would pass to C. (for Charles) Peter McColough, 45, the company's president since...
Making the Most. One of Wilson's better products has been President McColough. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, McColough served in the Royal Navy in World War II, got a Harvard Business School degree in 1949, quickly decided that "business is more interesting in the U.S. than in Canada." He almost changed his mind in 1954 when, after five years with small Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., he went for a job interview at Xerox (then Haloid). "It wasn't very impressive," McColough recalls. "I went up to see one of the vice presidents...