Publications

01 Dec 2010
News

Chinese Executives Give IXP Program a Boost

The Chinese have a long tradition of gift giving, so it wasn’t a complete surprise when the seventeen executives who completed Executive Education’s 2010 Global CEO Program for China decided to show... View Details

14 Oct 2022
News

Baker Library Update: Q+A with Executive Director Ken Peterson

27 Apr 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Leadership and Creditor Recovery Rates: Evidence from Executive Gender

Keywords: by Clarissa Hauptmann and Anywhere Sikochi

21 Sep 2009
News

Harvard Business School Launches Programs For Real Estate Executives

September 2022
Case

Blake Sports: Evolution of the CEO and the Executive Team

By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

Cameron (Cam) Barker, CEO and Founder of Blake Sports Apparel, sat in his office at his company’s headquarters in Birmingham, England, feeling stunned and disappointed. Only a few minutes prior, he had wrapped up a meeting with CFO James Ryan, a highly-respected star... View Details

Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Leadership Skills; Team Dynamics; Team Effectiveness; Team Leadership; Team Management; Leadership Style; Leadership; Management; Management Skills; Management Style; Talent and Talent Management; Groups and Teams; United Kingdom

01 Dec 2009
News

Japan Research Center Names New Executive Director

In August, Nobuo Sato (MBA ’82) assumed his duties as executive director of the Japan Research Center (JRC) in Tokyo. Sato’s business career has spanned three decades, most recently encompassing fifteen years at Egon Zehnder... View Details

Keywords: Finance

November 1993 (Revised September 2018)
Case

Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (A)

By: Linda Hill and Katherine Seger Weber

Explores the roles of CEO Rudi Gassner and the 9-person executive committee in leading BMG International. BMG International is the international music subsidiary of Bertlesmann, a German company that is the second-largest media conglomerate in the world. Describes a... View Details

Keywords: Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Decision Making; Business Plan; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Leadership Style; Organizational Culture; Business Subsidiaries; Business Conglomerates; Cost Management; Change Management; Music Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Germany

October 2019
Case

Kymera Therapeutics: Building a Biotech Execution Plan

By: Peter Barrett, Karim R. Lakhani and Kerry Herman

December 2007
Teaching Note

Executive Remuneration at Reckitt Benckiser plc (TN)

By: V.G. Narayanan

Teaching Note for [104-062]. View Details

Keywords: Retail Industry

31 Dec 2008
News

Citigroup's Top Executives to Forgo '08 Bonuses

26 Apr 2010
News

Reducing Pay for New York Cultural Executives

12 Oct 2016
News

What separates honest executives from white-collar criminals

17 Dec 2024
Video

Chief Executive Landing Page (CELP) topper video

June 2000
Case

Egon Zehnder International: Managing Professionals in an Executive Search Firm

Compares the management of professionals at Egon Zehnder International, a leading executive search firm, and its competitors. Highlights recruitment, rewards, and retention as key dimensions of strategy in professional service firms. View Details

Keywords: Management; Retention; Recruitment; Compensation and Benefits; Service Industry

Blog

Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean

Whether prompted by insight from a trainer, a teacher, or a peer in a classroom, it's important for all of us to challenge ourselves to do better and learn something new. HBS Executive Education exists to help View Details

19 Mar 2008
News

Harvard Business School Offers New Executive Education Program in China

2016
Working Paper

Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay

By: Matti Keloharju, Samuli Knüpfer and Joacim Tåg

This paper uses exceptionally rich data on Swedish corporate executives and their personal characteristics to study gender gaps in CEO appointments and pay. Both gaps are sizeable: 18% for CEO appointments and 27% for pay. At most one-eighth of the gaps can be... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Executive Compensation; Gender; Sweden