A version of this article appeared in the March 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review.
Martin Sorrell on What’s Next
Photography: Getty Images Sir Martin Sorrell acquired his way into the advertising business during the 1980s, first by scooping up small agencies and then by stunning the ad world with takeovers of J. Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather. By the mid-1990s his company, WPP, was a dominant force in advertising, and Sorrell himself saw […]