But board experts tell Fortune that choosing a boomerang CEO is risky precisely because it upends the point of succession planning: looking ahead to find the right leader for a future era.

Today, Instagram is adding another option to this mix with an app called Boomerang - a cross between a GIF and a Vine that loops forwards and backwards. Instagram's Boomerang is a free app ...

The record of other “boomerang” CEOs suggests he faces a tricky challenge. UnitedHealth tapped its 72-year-old chairman and former CEO to help the health-insurance giant recover from a series ...

He joins a list of big name "boomerang" chief executives who have made comebacks at a later date. One of the Silicon Valley's most famous names, Apple founder Steve Jobs left the company in 1985 ...

It's an airfoil. And on the other side there, Uncle Moogy, we've got the scaled up cross section across your boomerang right here, so that hopefully we can see a difference between your boomerang ...