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- December 6, 2013
- Article
Family Businesses Shouldn't Hunt for Superstar CEOs
By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
This article discusses the challenges faced by family businesses when it comes to succession planning, particularly in selecting an outside CEO. It presents a case study of a third-generation family business looking for an external CEO, named "Mr. Wonderful," to manage... View Details
Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "Family Businesses Shouldn't Hunt for Superstar CEOs." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 6, 2013).
- 2013
- Chapter
The Most Successful CEOs Come from Within
By: Joseph L. Bower
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
Bower, Joseph L. "The Most Successful CEOs Come from Within." In How CEOs Can Fix Capitalism, edited by Raymond V. Gilmartin and Steven E. Prokesch, 124–127. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013. Electronic.
- January 1992
- Teaching Note
CEO Evaluation at Dayton Hudson, Teaching Note
By: Francis Aguilar
Teaching Note for (9-491-116). View Details
- 26 Oct 2014
- News
Efforts to regulate CEO pay gain traction
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Grocery Chain Workers Want Their CEO Back
- 05 Mar 2014
- News
Do CEOs of Family-Owned Businesses Work Less?
- 18 Nov 2010
- News
Sexism That Irks Goldman Profits Savvy CEOs
- 25 Apr 2011
- News
Why CEOs Should Watch the Royal Wedding
- 18 Jun 2018
- News
Time is the scarcest resource for CEOs
- 24 Feb 2021
- Video
“Moderna” Case Discussion with CEO Stéphane Bancel
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Abigail Johnson Named CEO of Fidelity Investments
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
CIBC’S New CEO Weighs Expanding Wealth Management
- 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
Keloharju, Matti, Samuli Knüpfer, and Joacim Tåg. "Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-092, February 2016.
- 18 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Courageous Leader Triggers a Moral Revolt of CEOs Against Trump
Nothing like this has happened in 50 years. Forty-three CEOs of major American corporations revolted against President Trump this week, which led to the shutdown of two presidential advisory councils. In so doing, these leaders may have... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- Research Summary
The Impact of CEO Incentives on Misreporting
Co-authored with Natasha Burns View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- Podcast
Extending Apparel Lifespan: ThredUp CEO James Reinhart
James Reinhart, CEO of ThredUp, one of the largest online resale platforms for secondhand clothing. James co-founded the company while he was a Masters’ student at Harvard and has spent the last 15 years scaling a national logistics and digital infrastructure platform... View Details
- 26 Oct 2011
- News
IBM’s Rometty Named Company’s First Female CEO
- 21 May 2013
- News
'Berating' CEOs Doesn't Solve Tax Problem: Fiorina
- 10 Jan 2022
- News