Decision easterbrook, of course, took over as ceo in march of 2015 before todays move, the stock was up 96 under his leadership since he took over under that tenure, the company sold off many of its company own stores to franchisees and previeded over the launch of alldaybreak fast and mcdonalds named usa president the new ceo of the company but a lot to talk about there. Joining us to have that conversation right now about leadership change at mcdonalds, jeff simonfeld and cnbc contributor. This was a huge surprise, jeff clearly made a mistake but it was a consensual relationship and we now had a handful of these situations how do you read it well, we do see a trend here that of these roughly 90 ceos who left office last year is 40 of them was for misconduct we havent seen numbers that high 40 for misconduct and most of that misconduct was had to do with improper relationships at work but you make an important distinction, this was consens l consensual we say Harry Stonecipher at boei
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