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2013
Chapter

The Most Successful CEOs Come from Within

The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing shareholder value. Corporate leaders understood that reform was needed and that they needed to commit... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Business and Community Relations; Management Teams

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January 1992
Teaching Note

CEO Evaluation at Dayton Hudson, Teaching Note

By: Francis Aguilar

Teaching Note for (9-491-116). View Details

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26 Oct 2014
News

Efforts to regulate CEO pay gain traction

31 Jul 2014
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Grocery Chain Workers Want Their CEO Back

05 Mar 2014
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Do CEOs of Family-Owned Businesses Work Less?

18 Nov 2010
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Sexism That Irks Goldman Profits Savvy CEOs

25 Apr 2011
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Why CEOs Should Watch the Royal Wedding

18 Jun 2018
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Time is the scarcest resource for CEOs

24 Feb 2021
Video

“Moderna” Case Discussion with CEO Stéphane Bancel

14 Oct 2014
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Abigail Johnson Named CEO of Fidelity Investments

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Aug 2014
News

CIBC’S New CEO Weighs Expanding Wealth Management

22 Apr 2014
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Blue Highway: Berkshires CEO Treks Across America

Keywords: Hospitality

22 Nov 2022
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Merlin Entertainments Taps Scott O’Neil as CEO

Photo credit: Philadelphia 76ers; Merlin Entertainments Scott O’Neil (MBA 1998), former CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, was recently named CEO of the UK-based theme park company Merlin... View Details

07 Feb 2019
News

New Charter School CEO Debuts Colorful Changes

Photo via the Chicago Sun-Times / provided by Noble Photo via the Chicago Sun-Times / provided by Noble Constance Jones (MBA 2008) understands the importance of demonstrating change: As detailed in the Chicago Sun-Times, the Noble Network View Details

27 Apr 2023
Cold Call Podcast

Equity Bank CEO James Mwangi: Transforming Lives with Access to Credit

Keywords: Re: Caroline M. Elkins; Banking; Financial Services

01 Sep 2003
News

New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO

2003 Business Statesman Award recipient Hank Paulson and Scott Meyer (MBA ’96), former HBSCNY president. Larry Busacca Photography Henry M. Paulson, Jr. (MBA ’70), chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, received the 2003 Business Statesman... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

August 2016
Supplement

CEO Succession at Cisco (C): Chuck Robbins' First 100 Days

By: Boris Groysberg, J. Yo-Jud Cheng and Annelena Lobb

Supplements the (A) case (417-031). This case supplement describes new CEO Chuck Robbins’ earliest days after being announced as Cisco’s new chief executive. During this time, Robbins focused on building a leadership team featuring people with complementary skills... View Details

Keywords: Management Succession; Technology Industry

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29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

Reviewing a spectacular business failure, we often wonder why the CEO didn't see trouble coming. It was so obvious. Why didn't Digital Equipment Corp. CEO Kenneth Olsen see the PC as a threat to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

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

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2007
Book

The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning

By: Joseph L. Bower

With rising CEO turnover, companies are increasingly looking outside for qualified candidates. Sure, externally recruited CEOs bring fresh perspectives and connections. But they lack the in-depth knowledge of the company's culture and history that they need to succeed.... View Details

Keywords: Recruitment; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership Development; Management Succession

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