Jensen Huang has argued execs need less supervision. Then a scandal made him step down as Nvidia CEO

The spectacular downfall of superstar Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang—who resigned this morning after admitting to an extramarital affair with an alleged Chinese spy and amid reports of another affair with one of his executives—casts a harsh light on a key tenet of Huang’s own management philosophy: that senior executives need little supervision. Huang often used this belief to justify Nvidia’s unique management structure, in which 50 to 60 senior executives reported directly to him, arguing that sen...