# Professor Melissa Schilling discusses how Sundar Pichai may approach his new position as CEO of Alphabet following Larry Page and Sergey Brin's recent departures

1 Faculty News December 6, 2019 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/afe0c01c-17ee-11ea-9ee4-11f260415385) -- "As a professional manager, Mr Pichai will inevitably strike a more cautious stance than Google’s founders, says [Melissa Schilling](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/melissa-schilling), a Stern business school professor. 'We’re likely to see more risk aversion, and a move to make the company more ordinary,' she says. But it is hard to see Mr. Page and Mr. Brin — whose shareholdings and board seats leave them still in the driving seat — settling for something quite so prosaic."

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