Last Updated: October 7, 2025
Analyzing Management
Leadership at public companies plays a crucial role for hedge funds and asset managers, influencing both early due diligence and continuous risk assessment. With ManagementTrack, investors gain access to a consistent framework that filters out distractions—highlighting specific strengths and weaknesses, surfacing warning signs and positive indicators, and drawing a straight line between CEO choices and investment performance.
CEO Cocks’s ops skill may be offset by consumer weakness & fan alienation.
Analysis of Hasbro CEO Christian Cocks
While demonstrating operational skill in cost-savings and digital gaming, Cocks’s weakness in consumer products and alienation of the core Wizards of the Coast fanbase may leave him poorly suited for Hasbro’s turnaround needs.
ManagementTrack’s analysis focuses on Christian Cocks’s track record and skillset against the following key factors for HAS:
- Sustaining high-margin Monopoly GO! revenue to diversify profit.
- Delivering on $750M cost savings to fund the ‘Playing to Win’ strategy.
- Mitigating tariff and retailer headwinds in Consumer Products.
- Sustaining WotC growth via ‘Universes Beyond’ IP releases.
Report Available: Proprietary Interviews & Analysis on Christian Cocks Answers Key Questions
ManagementTrack reports provide track record analysis, career playbooks, strengths, and weaknesses for every CEO. They allow investors to dig deeper to uncover hard-to-find data to answer the most pressing questions.
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Question Answered #1
How will Cocks’s documented disdain for the core fanbase and subject matter experts impact his ability to sustain growth at the crucial Wizards of the Coast division?
Question Answered #2
How will Cocks’s leadership style, which creates a negative culture of burnout and high attrition, affect his ability to execute on his strategic vision for Hasbro’s turnaround?
Question Answered #3
How will Cocks’s reliance on his own gut over data affect the turnaround of the Consumer Products division, where his track record is negative and he lacks experience?
Why Do Investors Use ManagementTrack?
Q: How does ManagementTrack evaluate Christian Cocks at HAS?
A: By using its proprietary career analysis and interviews with former colleagues, ManagementTrack determines an executive’s track record, including core strengths and weaknesses. This profile is then measured against HAS’s most critical business factors: sustaining the high-margin revenue from Monopoly GO!, delivering on the company’s $750 million cost-savings initiative, mitigating tariff and retailer headwinds within the Consumer Products division, and maintaining growth for Wizards of the Coast through key IP releases.
Q: What other methods does ManagementTrack use to link C-suite leadership to future company performance?
A: ManagementTrack utilizes proprietary models to flag executive evasion during earnings call Q&As and to determine if such behavior is unusual. It also scrutinizes all insider transactions to identify outlier trades that may predict future stock over or underperformance. These elements, combined with the ManagementTrack Rating—a predictive 1-to-10 score for every executive—offer investors a definitive positive or negative outlook on how an executive’s capabilities will affect future results.
Q: What is the extent of ManagementTrack’s coverage?
A: ManagementTrack provides real-time coverage for the C-suite of every publicly traded company.
How to Learn More
Reach out to sales@paragonintel.com or visit https://paragonintel.com/access-now/ to see our deep dive analysis on any executive.
Author
Colby Howard is the co-founder and President of Paragon Intel. Paragon Intel’s ManagementTrack is the premier executive analysis platform for hedge funds, asset managers, corporations, boards, and recruiters. Our proprietary data, built over a decade of analysis, allows us to analyze each public company executive to understand their fit and ability to execute at their company. We leverage our proprietary data – key quantitative research on an executive’s career plus interviews with their former colleagues – with public documents, including SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q), investor presentations, press releases, and earnings call transcripts. to build a holistic, evidence-based view of an executive’s capabilities and playbook.
Sources
Verified Career History by ManagementTrack for Christian Cocks
Analysis of Capital Allocation, Performance, and Fundamentals across career by ManagementTrack
Hasbro, Inc. 10Q
Hasbro, Inc. 10K
Hasbro, Inc. Earnings Calls
Hasbro, Inc. Press Releases
Relevant Links
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Data visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-data/
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- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Interview library visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-report-library/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Evasion Analysis visit: https://paragonintel.com/earnings-call-evasion/
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