On an April morning at Walmart’s headquarters, Doug McMillon was getting the Ryan Gosling treatment.
The occasion was a meeting to celebrate about 150 of Walmart’s long-tenured employees; the giant retailer holds a few such gatherings every year at its campus in Bentonville, Ark. The employees, whose badges identified them by years of service—20, 30, even 50—were the honorees. But McMillon was the one being mobbed like a movie star, as coworkers rushed up to ask for autographs or get a selfie with their photogenic CEO.
