BHP’s appointment of Mike Henry, to succeed Andrew Mackenzie in 2020, would appear to fit this pattern. BHP and its rivals, Rio Tinto and Anglo American, all appointed dealmaking bosses as the commodities supercycle ramped up in 2007. All three groups then turned to cost-cutting chiefs with the cy
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