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  • 27 Nov 2015
  • News

Three retail CEOs squeezed

  • January–February 2018
  • Article

The New CEO Activists

By: Aaron K Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
Though corporations have been lobbying the government and making campaign donations for a long time now, in recent years a dramatic new trend has emerged in U.S. politics: CEOs are taking very public stands on thorny political issues that have nothing to do with their... View Details
Keywords: Government Policy; Rights; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Sustainability; Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Social Issues; Communication Intention and Meaning; United States
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  • 31 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

What Do CEOs Do?

Keywords: by Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat & Raffaella Sadun
  • 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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  • June 2020
  • Teaching Note

Tesla's CEO Compensation Plan

By: Krishna G. Palepu
Teaching Note for "Tesla's CEO Compensation Plan," HBS Case #118-085. View Details
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  • 07 Nov 2016
  • News

The CEO as Activist

  • 14 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Growing CEOs from the Inside

the business but can't lead. That's why the best CEO should be both an insider and an outsider, says Harvard Business School professor Joseph L. Bower in his new book, The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Employment
  • 28 Mar 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

Keywords: by Oriana Bandiera, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Pratt, and Raffaella Sadun
  • 09 Jan 2012
  • News

Sizing up the Tech CEOs

  • March 2005
  • Case

Vignette: Waiting for a CEO

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
A venture capitalist must decide how to respond to an e-mail from his long-time troubleshooter now installed as interim CEO at a struggling contract manufacturing exchange for the custom car business. The investors have been seeking a full-time CEO but have made little... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Business or Company Management; Investment; Business Ventures; Corporate Governance; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Strategy
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  • 19 Mar 2025
  • News

CEOs gone MIA

  • 17 Dec 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

How Do CEOs Make Strategy?

Keywords: by Mu-Jeung Yang, Michael Christensen, Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and Jan Rivkin
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

An Admirable CEO

With CEOs being viewed in a harsh light these days, Business Week (September 23, 2002) profiled six corporate leaders who “have built enduring U.S. companies without bending the rules.” Among them was Reuben Mark (MBA '63), chairman and... View Details
  • 19 Feb 2015
  • Video

Chuck Davis, CEO of Swagbucks.com

  • June 14, 2023
  • Article

How New CEOs Establish Legitimacy

By: Nitin Nohria
CEOs are given the authority to lead by the rules of corporate governance. They gain additional influence and credibility by demonstrating competence. CEOs who achieve legitimacy have a higher level of trust and influence. This legitimacy will be gained by consistently... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Leadership Style; Power and Influence; Trust; Competency and Skills
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  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

CEO Compensation Troubles

Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the media attention to the issue... View Details
Keywords: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 2017
  • Chapter

Are Founder CEOs Good Managers?

By: Victor Manuel Bennett, Megan Lawrence and Raffaella Sadun
We investigate the management practices adopted by firms where the founders are also the CEOs using data from the World Management Survey. We find that founder CEO firms have the lowest management scores of any owner-manager pair type and that this difference is... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance
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  • 12 Jan 2013
  • News

In Defense of the CEO

    The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership

    The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership is an examination of how the role of the  business leader in the U.S. has changed from World War II to the present.  A small number of high-profile individuals have transformed the face of modern-day... View Details

    • 1998
    • Working Paper

    CEO Incentives and Firm Size

    By: Brian Hall and George P. Baker
    What determines CEO incentives? A confusion exists among both academics and practitioners about how to measure the strength of CEO incentives, and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and small firms. We show that... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Size; Management Systems
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