The resignation of Brian Dunn as boss of Best Buy, America's biggest consumer-electronics retailer, on April 10th came with a whiff of scandal. Best Buy had been conducting a probe into his "personal conduct": Mr Dunn appears to have quit rather than wait for the result. It is a sad end to a fairytale 27-year career at the company, where Mr Dunn worked his way up from selling stereos on the shop floor to become only the third chief executive in the retailer's 46-year history. ' It was unclear whether his departure may also have had something to do with a new strategy, recently introduced by Mr Dunn, to try to dig the company out of a deepening hole.
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