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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

What Do CEOs Do?

By: Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
We develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea-sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up-is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the presence of governance... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Employee Relationship Management; Managerial Roles; Time Management; Performance Productivity; Italy
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  • March 1991 (Revised October 1991)
  • Case

CEO Evaluation at Dayton Hudson

By: Jay W. Lorsch
Describes the Dayton Hudson CEO evaluation process, one of the most intensive in corporate America today. The board of directors' role in the evaluation is examined, as is the question of whether the Dayton Hudson CEO evaluation process should serve as a model for... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Management Teams
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  • 13 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

Editor's note: This is part of a series of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this article, Davis discusses leadership roles. Part Two: Structuring Leadership Roles My previous... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
  • September 2009
  • Case

CapitaLand Ltd: CEO Selection

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Michael Shih-ta Chen and G.A. Donovan
In September 2007, the Group President of CapitaLand has to select a new CEO for a key subsidiary. The case presents the profiles of three candidates—two internal and one external—and ends with the senior management team debating the candidates' merits. View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Personal Characteristics
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  • 19 Aug 2017
  • News

Continue the revolt that CEOs launched

  • February 2012
  • Article

CEO Relational Leadership and Strategic Decision Quality in Top Management Teams: The Role of Team Trust and Learning from Failure

By: Abraham Carmeli, Asher Tishler and Amy C. Edmondson
In this study, we examine a complex pathway through which CEOs, who exhibit relational leadership, may improve the quality of strategic decisions of their top management teams (TMTs) by creating psychological conditions of trust and facilitating learning from failures... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Decisions; Management Teams; Trust; Learning; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Managerial Roles; Failure
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  • 14 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Growing CEOs from the Inside

outsider riding in on a white horse. I'd rather have an Anne Mulcahy than a Bob Nardelli (CEO of Chrysler) or even a Jim Kilts (former CEO of Gillette). Q: In a company that does manage succession well, what View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Employment
  • 2010
  • Chapter

What Is Leadership: The CEO's Role in Large, Complex Organizations

By: Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria
What is the role of the CEO in a large, complex enterprise? What makes a CEO effective? At first blush, these questions seem easy to answer. A CEO is the epitome of leadership. He or she exercises ultimate power and is responsible for making the most critical choices... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Power and Influence
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  • 18 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

solutions versus what drives some to drive more individual solutions.” Gallani also wants to look into why there aren’t more government regulations to hold compensation consultants accountable for their role in determining View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting
  • 12 May 2021
  • Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

a leadership guide to navigating a role that Fubini says is unlike any other, which leaves many new CEOs and leaders struggling to find their footing. “People strive for a long time to develop functional... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities
  • 16 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

work in exploring the forces that govern the process of CEO change. I have conducted research in four interrelated areas: factors that lead to vacancies in the CEO position; factors that affect the choice of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

new CEOs. See a video interview with Porter.Most new chief executives are taken aback by the unexpected and unfamiliar new roles, the time and information limitations, and the altered professional relationships they run up against. Here are the common surprises new... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria
  • March 2020
  • Teaching Note

Reawakening the Magic: Bob Iger and the Walt Disney Company

By: David J. Collis
Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-483. View Details
Keywords: Acquisition Strategy; Technology Strategy; Franchise Management; CEO Role; Corporate Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Acquisition; Global Strategy; Information Technology; Strategy; Vertical Integration; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 22 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

CEO Succession: The Case at Ford

this all transpired with Bill Ford. Bill Ford seems to have played a rather major role in picking Mulally as successor. Is that OK, or is it better for the CEO to sort of stay in the kitchen when this is... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Auto; Employment
  • 12 Mar 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

Editor's note: This is part of a series of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this article, Davis discusses when to make changes at the top. No one needs convincing that the right View Details
  • March 2005 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

Siebel Systems: The Role of the CFO

By: Malcolm P. Baker and Lauren Barley
Mike Lawrie, the newly appointed CEO of Siebel Systems, considers a combination of growth and spending cuts to turn around the struggling software company. Focuses on the role of the chief financial officer, Ken Goldman, in corporate governance and compliance under... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Leading Change; Entrepreneurship; Job Design and Levels; Corporate Governance; Financial Strategy; Management Teams; Corporate Finance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Information Technology Industry
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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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  • 2017
  • Chapter

Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective

By: Elizabeth J. Altman and Michael Tushman
Platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions with external entities. Firms pursuing these approaches conduct business and interact with environments differently than those pursuing traditional closed strategies. This chapter... View Details
Keywords: Platforms; Open/user Innovation; Ecosystems; Crowdsourcing; Strategic Leadership; Top Management Teams; CEO Role; Business Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Digital Platforms
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  • 30 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

managers have the courage, but does the CEO have the vision and fortitude to stand before the board and defend the opportunity to explore and fail?" Joe Violette, who reminded us that innovation (as opposed to invention) is most... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett