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06 Jun 2024
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Entrepreneurial Insights: Heela Yang, Co-founder and CEO of Sol de Janeiro

September 2020
Supplement

Commonwealth Joe: January 2020 Update from CEO Robert Peck

By: Alexander J. MacKay

At the end of 2016, the leadership team of Commonwealth Joe Coffee Roasters—Robert Peck, Chase Damiano, and Jeremy Martin—had begun an ambitious retail expansion strategy in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area for their specialty coffee business. That October, they... View Details

Keywords: Cold Brew Coffee; Specialty Coffee; On-premise Coffee Market; Retail Expansion Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Brands and Branding; Expansion; Strategy; Decision Making; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry

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October 2013 (Revised October 2013)
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Henkel's CEO Kasper Rorsted: On Building a Winning Culture

By: Robert L. Simons

Keywords: Performance Measurement; Performance Appraisals; Human Resource Management; Work/life Balance; Strategy Execution; Values; Organizational Transformations; Pay For Performance; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Values and Beliefs; Work-Life Balance; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits

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04 Mar 2024
Podcast

Behind the CEO Who Wants to “Keep Commerce Human”

In our increasingly virtual world, it can feel like many of our lives take place remotely. When Josh Silverman took the helm at Etsy in 2017, however, he went against this technological grain, helping to usher in a new, distinctly human-centered purpose at the... View Details

06 May 2022
News

How Looking Backward Helped LEGO's CEO Save His Company

24 Jun 2021
News

Study Shows CEO and Worker Pay Gap Is Widening

08 Apr 2016
News

Corporate Activism and the Rise of the Outspoken CEO

13 May 2024
Video

Entrepreneurial Insights: Yichen Guo, Co-founder and CEO of CapGo

13 Oct 2023
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Entrepreneurial Insights: Keta Burke-Williams, Founder and CEO of Ourside

13 Sep 2023
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Entrepreneurial Insights: Lizzie Matusov, Co-founder and CEO of Quotient

28 Sep 2017
News

Kellogg Taps Steven Cahillane as Cereal Maker's Next CEO

Keywords: Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

26 Aug 2016
News

RedSeal CEO Ray Rothrock Talks Cybersecurity with Jim Cramer

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

16 May 2014
News

Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush: A Prescription for Fixing Hospitals

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

Third Quarter 2015
Article

Should Boards Mentor Their CEOs?: It Is a Complex Question. Here Are the Significant Considerations.

By: Jay W. Lorsch

It's a complex question with significant considerations, including how open the CEO is likely to be to such advice, the company's situation, and the characteristics of the board. View Details

Keywords: Directors; CEO Mentoring; Governing and Advisory Boards; Rank and Position; Management Teams

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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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August 31, 2017
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CEOs Should Get Personally Involved in Talent Development

By: Frank V. Cespedes, Jay Galeota and Michael Wong

Estimates indicate that, globally, human capital has a value about 2.3 times that of physical capital. This difference is likely to widen in increasingly service-driven economies. Yet, most companies maintain their equipment better than their people. The issue is not... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Employees; Training

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