Squandered opportunities - Anonymous employee artnet Employee Review

2.0
20 Jan 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice offices; smart, eager people at lower and mid levels. Best database in the industry by far - too bad they don't know what to do with it!

Cons

After surviving a hostile take-over attempt a while back (owing to shareholder frustration with the destruction of $50MM in shareholder value), artnet seemed to be on the right track for a while, making some hard but smart decisions (shuttering artnet Magazine), hiring a handful of experienced, talented senior management, launching and at least trying some new approaches, and getting rid of some deadwood at the very top. Now most of that great senior management team has been forced out, the deadwood is back, and the same two guys (Chairman and President) that drove the company into the ground in the first place are back in charge. No vision past the end of their ancient noses.

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Cons

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