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  • 09 Feb 2017
  • News

Pro: Risky for CEOs to take political stances

  • 05 Jul 2021
  • News

Jeff Bezos Steps Down as Amazon CEO

  • 01 Aug 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

Summing Up Paul Jackson sums up the thinking of most respondents to this month's column with the comment, " . . . nothing about CEO compensation seems to be 'efficient.'" Brad Millet adds, "The View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

How Do CEOs Make Strategy?

By: Raffaella Sadun, Mu-Jeung Yang, Michael Christensen, Nicholas Bloom and Jan Rivkin
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  • April 2017 (Revised April 2017)
  • Teaching Note

CEO Activism (A) and (B)

By: Michael W. Toffel and Aaron K. Chatterji
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 617-001 and 617-048. View Details
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  • July 2013
  • Supplement

ActionAid International: Ramesh Singh, CEO

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
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  • May–June 1999
  • Article

CEO Pay: Facts and Fallacies

By: J. W. Lorsch
Keywords: Executive Compensation
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  • December 2005 (Revised April 2011)
  • Case

General Electric's 20th Century CEOs

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson
General Electric thrived in every decade of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1892, GE has placed a high value on picking and training the best people. Staff members worked with other scientists in the company's research lab to design and manufacture new and... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style
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  • May 2001
  • Supplement

Mike Levett, CEO Old Mutual

By: Tarun Khanna
Discusses issues related to the transformation of Old Mutual from a mutual company to a stock corporation, and from a South African insurer to a global financial institution. Emphasis is on understanding effects of South African institutional context. View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Globalized Firms and Management; Financial Services Industry; South Africa
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  • October 2002
  • Article

CEO compensation, diversification, and incentives

Keywords: Management; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 1998
  • Working Paper

CEO Incentives and Firm Size

By: George P. Baker and Brian J. Hall
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Wade Test: Generative AI and CEO Communication

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Bart S. Vanneste and Amirhossein Zohrehvand
Can generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) transform the role of the CEO? This study investigates whether Gen-AI can mimic a human CEO and whether employees display aversion to Gen-AI communication. We present a framework of Gen-AI aversion that distinguishes... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; AI and Machine Learning; Perception; Communication
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  • 04 Feb 2021
  • News

Andy Jassy Named Amazon’s New CEO

Amazon announced this week that Andy Jassy (MBA 1997) will take over the role of CEO from founder Jeff Bezos later this year. Jassy has been with Amazon since 1997 and currently runs Amazon Web Services, which the Wall Street Journal... View Details
  • April 1994 (Revised May 1995)
  • Case

Laura Ashley (A): A New CEO Takes Charge

By: Richard L. Nolan
In a turnaround situation, a new CEO must take actions in the short term to gain control and exercise executive leadership and lay groundwork to formulate a long-term strategy to rebuild a viable business. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Management Teams; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • February 2018
  • Article

Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk

By: Robert Bushman, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey and Abbie Smith
We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic bank CEOs has evolved over time and how risk management policies, non-CEO executives’ behavior, and tail risk vary with CEO materialism. We document that the proportion of banks run by materialistic CEOs increased... View Details
Keywords: Management; Personal Characteristics; Behavior; Risk Management; Organizational Culture; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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  • 01 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

And future growth prospects are baked into stock market valuations of companies. Yet an increasingly high percentage of Fortune 500 CEOs have not come up the ranks through marketing or sales. At the same time, in many companies, the chief... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 12 May 2021
  • News

When Should CEOs Speak Out on Public Issues?

  • 09 Apr 2019
  • News

CEOs Need To Think Carefully Before Backing Causes

  • May 2018
  • Article

Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

By: Oriana Bandiera, Renata Lemos, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. We do so through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs’ diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion and to build a bottom-up measure... View Details
Keywords: Performance Productivity; Family Ownership; Management
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  • September 13, 2023
  • Article

The Myth of the CEO as Ultimate Decision Maker

By: Nitin Nohria
Chief executives are responsible for guiding corporations, so the role inevitably requires making many decisions. But people overestimate the level of personal involvement CEOs have in this process. Instead of making decisions, CEOs tend to shape decisions, by... View Details
Keywords: Problem Solving; Delegation; Leadership Style; Decision Making; Time Management; Power and Influence
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