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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

24 Mar 2021
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Outsider-Insider Named CEO of Amazon Web Services

Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn On March 23, recently appointed Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (MBA 1997) named Adam Selipsky (MBA 1993) head of Amazon Web Services (AWS), a $50 billion business that contributes more than half of Amazon’s... View Details

Keywords: Amazon; online retail; leadership; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

26 Sep 2013
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Panera CEO Takes the Food Stamps Challenge

Ron Shaich, the CEO and founder of Panera Bread lived on a food and beverage budget of $4.50 per day for a week. That figure is about the same amount someone receiving food assistance would get per day. He joins Here & Now to share what... View Details

Keywords: food insecurity; poverty; food stamps; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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
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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
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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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12 Jun 2017
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Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO

Longtime GE CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) announced his retirement Monday, set to take effect on August 1. John Flannery, president and chief executive of GE Healthcare, was named Immelt’s successor. The announcement, the company noted, came... View Details

04 Dec 2010
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Gregg Steinhafel has faced up to many challenges as Target CEO

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

At a recent gathering of chief executives in New York City, the CEOs of two companies shared pleasant dinner conversation. The first led a large, successful corporation; the second also served as a director of a telecommunications firm... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

January 2020
Article

Compensation Consultants and the Level, Composition, and Complexity of CEO Pay

By: Kevin J. Murphy and Tatiana Sandino

We provide fresh evidence regarding the relation between compensation consultants and CEO pay. First, firms that employ consultants have higher-paid CEOs—this result is robust to firm fixed effects and matching on economic and governance variables. Second, while this... View Details

Keywords: Consultants; Benchmarking; Incentive Pay; Executive Compensation; Complexity; Motivation and Incentives; Governance

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2019
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Compensation Consultants and the Level, Composition, and Complexity of CEO Pay

By: Kevin J. Murphy and Tatiana Sandino

We provide fresh evidence regarding the relation between compensation consultants and CEO pay. First, firms that employ consultants have higher-paid CEOs—this result is robust to firm fixed effects and matching on economic and governance variables. Second, while this... View Details

Keywords: Consultants; Benchmarking; Incentive Pay; Executive Compensation; Complexity; Motivation and Incentives; Governance

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20 Jul 2011
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Murdoch's Refusal to Take Responsibility May Undermine Credibility as CEO

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The Impact of CEO Incentives on Misreporting

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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