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- 05 Sep 2012
- News
Are Firms Neglecting Succession Plans?
- Article
A Head Start on Succession
By: Joseph L. Bower
Our studies of CEO succession over the past several years have shown some improvements in the trends in CEO turnover, often resulting from outside pressures for improved oversight and better corporate governance. The next step in improving CEO succession—and ultimately... View Details
Keywords: Investment Return; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations
Bower, Joseph L. "A Head Start on Succession." Strategy + Business, no. 51 (Summer 2008): 84–85.
- Web
Leadership Fellows
organization's success Involve managerial and leadership development activities distinct from a permanent full-time position There are two routes to becoming a Leadership... View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- News
Boards Are Terrible at Their Most Important Job
- November 2015 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Cisco Systems: In Search of the Next CEO
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott, Olivia Hull and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
It’s August 2014 and John Chambers is expected to announce his retirement after 17 years as CEO of global technology giant Cisco Systems. Under Chambers’s leadership, Cisco has grown from $2.2 billion in annual revenues and under 4,000 employees to revenues of $46... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Succession Planning; CEO Succession; Managing Change; Person-organization Fit; Management Succession; Transition; Talent and Talent Management; Change Management; Retirement; Innovation Leadership; Recruitment; Corporate Governance; Experience and Expertise; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; San Jose; California
Groysberg, Boris, Sarah L. Abbott, Olivia Hull, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng. "Cisco Systems: In Search of the Next CEO." Harvard Business School Case 416-027, November 2015. (Revised February 2017.)
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
serial entrepreneurs versus first-time founders. “We’ve always had a hard time being able to identify the skills and behaviors of entrepreneurial leaders,” says HBS Professor Lynda Applegate, who has spent 20 years studying leadership... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
- February 2011
- Case
Rebecca S. Halstead: Steadfast Leadership
By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell
Reviews Rebecca Halstead's career history, detailing how, through her personal attributes, skills, experiences, challenges, and organizational practices she developed into a successful leader and commander in the U.S. Army. The case profiles her leadership style and... View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Groups and Teams; Competitive Strategy; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Gender; Power and Influence
Groysberg, Boris, and Deborah Bell. "Rebecca S. Halstead: Steadfast Leadership." Harvard Business School Case 411-050, February 2011.
- May 2016
- Article
'Both/And' Leadership
By: Wendy K. Smith, Marianne Lewis and Michael Tushman
Leaders face a multitude of strategic paradoxes—contradictory pressures that are too often viewed as "either/or" choices. There are innovation paradoxes, in which the pursuit of new offerings and processes conflicts with the mandate to sustain the tried and... View Details
Smith, Wendy K., Marianne Lewis, and Michael Tushman. "'Both/And' Leadership." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 5 (May 2016): 62–70.
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Success Through Shared Effort
With donations totaling $1.77 million, the MBA Class of 2003 set a new 10th Reunion giving record last spring. "The most important catalyst for giving was leadership at the section level," says Carolyn Wolff Dorros, who served as reunion... View Details
- Program
Program for Leadership Development
Summary Innovative companies know that long-term success requires a pipeline of visionary leaders who can help build and secure a competitive edge. The Program for Leadership Development (PLD) prepares... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
The rapid changes at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup highlight the problem many firms face as they consider succession. What we are seeing should be surprising and disturbing to us all: At investment banks of great importance, the board of directors has decided to change... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- News
Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?
- Research Summary
Transition Leadership
Michael Watkins is developing frameworks, programs, and e-performance tools for helping leaders to take charge in new senior management roles. New leaders' actions during their first few months on the job have a disproportionate impact on their ultimate success or... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
Summing Up Should CEO succession processes be certified? Respondents to this month's column agree that CEO succession is badly managed, perhaps accounting in large part for the fact that few "inside... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Authentic Leadership
their own leadership style and determine their inner compass. They are invited to draw up a contract establishing norms and confidentiality, allowing for openness about vulnerabilities as they share their life stories and confront... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- News
Your CEO Succession Plan Can’t Wait
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
Fieldhouse with thousands of people waiting for you to fail. So when she returned to the University of Kansas for a reunion in 2014, Feickert expected to hear similar stories of success from her teammates and other friends who had been... View Details
Keywords: April White
- April 2011
- Article
Why Leaders Don't Learn from Success
By: Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano
We argue that for a variety of psychological reasons, it is often much harder for leaders and organizations to learn from success than to learn from failure. Success creates three kinds of traps that often impede deep learning. The first is attribution error or the... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Innovation and Management; Leadership; Failure; Success; Performance Evaluation; Prejudice and Bias
Gino, Francesca, and Gary P. Pisano. "Why Leaders Don't Learn from Success." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 4 (April 2011): 68–74.
- 27 Jul 2021
- News
Building Successful Hybrid Teams
- June 2016
- Article
Wicked Problem Solvers: Lessons from Successful Cross-industry Teams
By: Amy C. Edmondson
Companies today increasingly rely on teams that span many industries for radical innovation, especially to solve “wicked problems.” So leaders have to understand how to promote collaboration when roles are uncertain, goals are shifting, expertise and organizational... View Details
Edmondson, Amy C. "Wicked Problem Solvers: Lessons from Successful Cross-industry Teams." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 6 (June 2016): 53–59.