signed by Thompson "that stated to the best of his knowledge its contents were accurate." That document said that Thompson had earned a college degree in accounting and computer science in 1979 from a small south of Boston. The activist investor said he had reason to believe that the degree was in ac counting only. And, come to find out, the university didn't have a computer science program until the early 1980s and school officials confirmed that Mr. Thompson received a bachelor's of 'science degree in business administration. The activist investor questioned if Thompson had embellished his academic creden tials and if the board had failed to exercise due "diligence and oversight in one of its most important tasks identifying and hiring the Chief Executive Officer
After all this came down, a person close to the company said that, "In the absence of evidence that Mr. Thompson actively mis about résumé, Yahoo!'s directors likely won't force led Yahoo! him out. Maintaining him as CEO of Yahoo! at this time is more important than whether he had a computer science degree or not And at first, that was the stance Yahoo!'s board took. However, the controversy continued to grow. In a meeting with senior Yahoo! of ficials, Thompson said he regretted not finding an error in his pub lic biography." He then suggested that maybe an executive search firm might have inserted this information more than seven years earlier. Yet, this blame game backfired. Some of his comments up on tech blogs, which angered the search firm, which ended