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  • 12 Feb 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills

of jobs over the past few decades. And while trade deals undoubtedly play a role in the global topography of jobs, today many American jobs may hang in the balance based upon a completely different factor: the availability of skilled... View Details
Keywords: by Joe Fuller and Matt Sigelman; Manufacturing; Electronics
  • 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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  • May 1994 (Revised October 1994)
  • Case

Motorola Corp.: The View from the CEO Office

By: Shoshana Zuboff and Janis Lee Gogan
Motorola, a leader in semiconductors and telecommunications, embarked on an ambitious program of renewal beginning in the early 1980s, leading to dramatic improvements in the company's quality, cycle time, and growth. Much of this progress was attributed to a major... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Leading Change; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 03 May 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?

(Image credit: iStockphoto/adamkaz) CEO activism entered a new chapter with the decision by more than 200 leaders of large corporations last month to publicly declare their support for voting rights for Americans and, by extension, their... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • March 2018 (Revised January 2020)
  • Supplement

STRIVR (B): Moving into the Enterprise

By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson
STRIVR, a company focused on virtual reality training, has decided to shift focus from sports to enterprise customers. The change in strategy requires the CEO to solve a number of issues. The company initally offered training for hard skills, but clients have been... View Details
Keywords: Strivr; Virtual Reality; Soft Skills; Hard Skills; VR; Applications and Software; Market Entry and Exit; Business Strategy; Training; Sports; Technology Industry; Education Industry; United States
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  • 05 Jun 2018
  • News

Howard Schultz has tremendous skills that would transfer to politics

  • Web

From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni

that clarity and offer alternative paths forward better suited for your skills and interests. Examples include adding new dimensions to your current role or making a lateral move to another company. External Assessment To better... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Avon CEO Jung on Leadership

Jung Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc., knows a thing or two about reinvention. After taking over the venerable beauty-products firm in 1999, she helped it shed the last vestiges of its “Ding-dong, Avon calling” image... View Details
Keywords: makeup; grooming; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
  • 04 Oct 2021
  • News

Ambitious? Learn What Companies Actually Want in a CEO

  • 18 Dec 2019
  • Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

social media editor for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStockphoto] Related Reading For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style What’s Really... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 09 Jul 2013
  • News

Can Zynga’s New CEO Turn The Stock Around?

  • 01 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

the current economic downturn, companies need marketing skills more than ever. But while every corporate mission statement pays lip service to respecting customer needs, actual customer expertise is typically a mile wide and an inch deep.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 29 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO WAVE

2013, NVC 2013 Winner) shares her insights on founding and leading a social enterprise. Misan is the cofounder and CEO of WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), an organization dedicated to tackling youth unemployment in West Africa.... View Details
  • 09 Sep 2016
  • News

Marla Malcolm Beck’s Path to CEO

In a New York Times piece that asks “How to Become a C.E.O.?”, Marla Malcolm Beck (MBA 1998) is highlighted as an example of the entrepreneurial path one can take to the chief executive position. Malcolm Beck, the founder and CEO of... View Details
  • November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
  • Supplement

GE's Talent Machine: The Making of a CEO

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
CEO Jeff Immelt, ex-CEO Jack Welch, and HR Chief Bill Conaty discuss how GE has made talent development a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Immelt describes GE's deeply embedded philosophy around its people and how it has allowed the company to add value... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Business or Company Management; Performance Capacity; Performance Effectiveness; Competitive Advantage; System; Value
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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them

By: Kevin J. Murphy and Michael C. Jensen
Almost all CEO and executive bonus plans have serious design flaws that limit their benefits dramatically. Such poorly designed executive bonus plans destroy value by providing incentives to manipulate the timing of earnings, mislead the board about organizational... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Competency and Skills; Cost of Capital; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Performance Evaluation; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Value
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  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work

companies as well as for the discussants. Because the CEOs of each company were there to participate in the discussions, the dialogue was interesting, lively, and productive. "Ours was a grassroots effort to get involved in the... View Details
  • Article

How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire for More Equal Pay

By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton
Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of the wages of people in different... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Justice; Wage; Cross-cultural; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Income; Employees; Management Teams; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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  • 14 Oct 2014
  • News

Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills

wonder of the open seas. “Ninety-one percent of the people who go through our program say they have an easier time conquering life’s other challenges,” he says. A competitive sailor who raced in the Paralympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and in London in 2012, Callahan... View Details
  • 24 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business

A good book on CEO succession is The CEO Within by my Harvard Business School colleague Joe Bower. Bower studied how companies perform after hiring a new CEO, noting whether the successor had been recruited... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Auto