‘Marissa Mayer’s First Year at Yahoo: Don’t Call It a Comeback’ – ‘Mashable’

Seth Fiegerman says, “Savior. Visionary. A new hope.

These were just some of the glowing words used by the press to describeMarissa Mayer when she was hired as Yahoo’s CEO one year ago. That sense of optimism appeared inside the company as well, with one employee going so far as to hang up a poster of Mayer’s face above the word “hope,” based on the iconic Shepard Fairey illustration of Barack Obama“.