CEO Succession - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

the trends of yesteryear, we ask that you also turn your thoughts to 2012. What do you think will be the top areas of concern for managers in the coming months? Please share your thoughts in the comments section, and have a happy new year! 2011 Top 10 Stories: (#... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

board members current, and the behaviors that lead to successful teamwork at the board level. HBS Working Knowledge's Martha Lagace recently talked with Lorsch about his findings. Martha Lagace: Tell us why the design element of corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

Express; Solomon Trujillo, president and CEO of U S West Communications; and Ann Fudge, president of Maxwell House Coffee Company and Post Cereals? How did these people of color overcome the odds and break through the glass ceiling that... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

testing, and business strategy at Targanta Therapeutics, a biotech company preparing its first new drug application to the FDA. In October 2007, Mark Leuchtenberger, president and CEO of Targanta—which has just held a View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

for him, Levine said, was that the company's CEO backed the project, and allowed the group to operate outside the usual corporate boundaries. Levine was even able to move the start-up off campus. Once the group had developed its product,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

Governance When Founders Are Directors Authors:Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

On August 31, 2016, many investors celebrated the 40th birthday of one of the world’s most successful financial instruments: the mutual index fund, created by Vanguard founder John C. Bogle. Index funds, which automatically track an index... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

08 Jul 2002
What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

As John Apen points out, "Alignment works only if CEOs and boards have the same time perspective as the other two groups (investors and employees)... top managers' and Wall Street goals were all short term.…" C. J.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Apr 2017
Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

The so-called chicken-and-egg problem is arguably the most discussed and most obvious business dilemma in the sharing economy. Platform providers–like Uber, Airbnb, or Etsy–rely on both consumers and producers to create and sustain a View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

International Senior Management Program) has been in the thick of Europe's airline industry for decades. With more than thirty years' experience at Swissair, he has served as president and CEO of Sabena since 1996. Christoph Brand (HBS... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

12 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

and if they were provided with immunity from prosecution for self-disclosed violations. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-020.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBang & Olufsen: Design Driven Innovation Harvard Business School Case 607-016 A... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

as a celebrity CEO with a guru book of success lessons. Almost before the ink dries, the same CEO is mired in notoriety, a celebrity failure as it were. The reasons trace back... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

11 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers

largely assumed to be working mothers, too. The argument goes that either Mayer should support her "own kind" or that she is not a "real" working mother because she is a wealthy CEO who has built her own nursery next... View Details

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan; Publishing; Web Services

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

development process undertaken by Gauri Nanda, the founder and CEO of Nanda Home, as she ventures to innovate beyond her initial product launches. Having achieved commercial success with her first product... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

08 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

Utilities began working with software, networking, and technology companies. John Chambers, CEO of leading networking and communications technology provider Cisco, said his company would develop smart grid technologies with an... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities

11 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

improvements. According to Roberto and Levesque, "We began to understand the barriers and catalysts for successful institutionalization of these programmatic change efforts." They described their results in a new HBS working... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2017
HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

relationship with money. The company, Turkasset, has been successful with its heterodox techniques, giving it a competitive advantage over rival debt collection firms. What’s more, it has also provided a boon for companies who held the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

will be done," Applegate said. "That ability to play above and below the line is fundamental to success because it provides revenue streams. There is nothing stickier than getting everyone in your industry to do business on your... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

21 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book "an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error." A past recipient of the HBS student-voted award for... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

28 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

superior innovation performance. Yet despite this need, there is little guidance on how to develop or deploy this ability. This article describes the results of a study to understand the strategies and practices used by firms that achieve greater View Details