CEO steps down after evolving Reed from "dusty print publisher"

Sir Crispin Davies, who is stepping down from multinational publisher Reed Elsevier next week, says that when he took over as the CEO ten years ago, he quickly came to understand that Reed had to evolve from being “a dusty print publisher” to become an online information provider: “The key decision was: do we follow or do we lead [our customers online],” Sir Crispin recalls in a wide-ranging