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- December 2, 2021
- Article
Former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly: Empowering Workers to Create ‘Magic’
By: Hubert Joly and Adi Ignatius
Hubert Joly was behind an amazing turnaround at Best Buy. While everybody was saying he should lay people off to solve the company’s problems, Joly instead listened to the people working for him and found solutions that didn’t involve people losing their jobs.... View Details
Keywords: Purpose; Meaningful Work; Employee Empowerment; Mission and Purpose; Employees; Organizational Culture; Leadership
Joly, Hubert, and Adi Ignatius. "Former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly: Empowering Workers to Create ‘Magic’." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 2, 2021). (Interview with Adi Ignatius, with embedded video.)
- August 22, 2019
- Article
CEOs Say Their Aim Is Inclusive Prosperity. Do They Mean It?
By: Lynn S. Paine
Earlier this week, the Business Roundtable issued a statement on corporate purpose. It is noteworthy both for its endorsement of inclusive prosperity as an ideal and for its rejection of maximizing shareholder returns as the sole corporate objective. However, the real... View Details
Paine, Lynn S. "CEOs Say Their Aim Is Inclusive Prosperity. Do They Mean It?" Harvard Business Review (website) (August 22, 2019).
- December 5, 2010
- Article
Gregg Steinhafel Has Faced Up to Many Challenges as Target CEO
By: Bill George
George, Bill. "Gregg Steinhafel Has Faced Up to Many Challenges as Target CEO." Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (December 5, 2010).
- June 2002
- Article
The Effects of CEO Equity Ownership and Diversification on Risk Taking
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "The Effects of CEO Equity Ownership and Diversification on Risk Taking." Strategic Management Journal 23, no. 6 (June 2002): 513–534.
- 12 Nov 2014
- News
How important is a CEO to a company's success? It depends.
- 24 Jun 2014
- News
Infosys' New CEO Vishal Sikka May Set up Corporate Venture Arm
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
The Top Qualities Boeing’s Next CEO Needs Most? Courage and Humility
- 16 Sep 2011
- News
AIG Restores Name in TV Ad, Fulfilling CEO Call on Comeback
- 13 Feb 2018
- News
How One Second Act CEO Brought Sunnier Days To Sesame Street
- October 2023
- Background Note
What Leaders Need to Know about Mental Health
By: Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, Liana Groysberg, Natalia Groysberg and Abhijit Naik
This paper will provide an overview of the nature of anxiety and depression, the particular vulnerabilities and stresses of CEOs, and suggestions for managing mental health in the workplace. View Details
Groysberg, Boris, Robin Abrahams, Liana Groysberg, Natalia Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik. "What Leaders Need to Know about Mental Health." Harvard Business School Background Note 424-032, October 2023.
- 22 Sep 2014
- News
Boards Are Terrible at Their Most Important Job
- December 2018
- Supplement
The Global-Local Tension: Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao Leading with 'International Values and Local Roots' (B)
By: Tsedal Neeley
Vittorio Colao, CEO of telecommunication giant Vodafone, must respond to reports of disturbing accounting practices at two of Vodafone’s operating companies. In one case, €60 million have been misreported due to a series of failures to check manual accounting... View Details
Keywords: GLOBAL-LOCAL; Global Identity; Local Identity; Accounting Discrepency; Globalization; Leadership; Trust; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizations; Identity; Local Range; Global Range; Values and Beliefs; Accounting Audits
Neeley, Tsedal. "The Global-Local Tension: Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao Leading with 'International Values and Local Roots' (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 419-032, December 2018.
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
and is operationally sound.” On top of building out the business plan and managing manufacturing delays, one of the other challenges Girard faced as a new CEO was deciding what she was going to hire for and what she would do herself.... View Details
- February 1999 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
Life as a Minor League CEO Frank Burke and The Chattanooga Lookouts
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Kirk A. Goldman
A "slice of life" depiction of the range of issues and activities experienced by Frank Burke (HBS MBA 1987), the president of a minor league baseball team (the Chattanooga Lookouts). Raises questions of the applicability of MBA skills in this role and the "quotient of... View Details
Keywords: Happiness; Managerial Roles; Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Marketing; Cost Management; Cost vs Benefits; Operations; Sports; Business Education; Sports Industry; Tennessee
Greyser, Stephen A., and Kirk A. Goldman. "Life as a Minor League CEO Frank Burke and The Chattanooga Lookouts." Harvard Business School Case 599-029, February 1999. (Revised July 2004.)