But Ms Bartz's abrasive management style has meant there has been considerable turnover in the senior ranks at Yahoo!
It made most of Ms Bartz's share options subject to tough performance triggers and negotiated a relatively stingy termination agreement.
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The mixed progress report from Yahoo comes two years into chief executive Carol Bartz's attempts to revive growth at the company.
Shortly after Ms. Bartz's ouster, Mr. Morse taped a video for employees.
They also see search advertising as a better business than display, and tend not to buy Bartz's arguments that saving on search costs and increasing the number of Yahoo!
There have been positive developments under Bartz's leadership.
"Yahoo's Carol Bartz publicly using expletives, and female sports reporter Renee Gork showing up to cover Arkansas football with a Florida Gators cap on, " Goudreau wrote.
In mid-May it invited Seacrest to sit on a closed-door panel at a three-day conference with Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz and Facebook's second-in-command, Sheryl Sandberg. (He talked about using outlets like Twitter to chart trends, stay connected and gauge stars' appeal for casting purposes.) Among leaders that included Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, Seacrest was the only rep from Tinseltown.
Ms. Bartz has improved Yahoo's profitability by cutting costs, but revenue hasn't grown much and the company faces other problems.
At the firm's annual general meeting in June, Roy Bostock, its chairman, publicly gave the board's backing to Ms Bartz after she was criticised by shareholders.
Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz recently called Facebook her company's top competitor.
's ex-CEO Carol Bartz was incorrectly referred to as Mr. Bartz on second reference rather than Ms. Bartz in a Marketplace article Wednesday.
"They're a hot site, but there's room for more than one of anything, " Ms. Bartz said at an event in December.
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