How OpenAI’s Nonprofit-Corporate Structure Fueled the Tumult Around CEO Sam Altman’s Short-Lived Ouster
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
By Alnoor Ebrahim omohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images CEO Sam Altman, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015, was fired in November 2023, only to return five days later. A management scholar says it appears that OpenAI’s board sought to exercise the "duty of obedience," which obliges them to act in the interest of the organization’s mission.
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