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Top 100 CEOs in the World - Harvard Business Review

By: Hubert Joly
Named one of the Top 100 Best-Performing CEOs in the World by Harvard Business Review in 2018. View Details
  • 19 Nov 2013
  • News

More Boards Recruit Former CEOs

  • 19 Feb 2015
  • Video

Chuck Davis, CEO of Swagbucks.com

  • 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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  • March 2017 (Revised October 2017)
  • Supplement

CEO Activism (B)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Aaron K. Chatterji and Julia Kelley
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
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  • June 2011
  • Article

The Ambidextrous CEO

By: Michael L. Tushman, Wendy K. Smith and Andy Binns
Keywords: Management
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  • 23 Feb 2017
  • News

Alcan CEO Remembered

Keywords: manufacturing; Alcan; obituary; leadership; Manufacturing
  • 27 Nov 2012
  • News

Investors Demand CEO Face Time

  • 16 Mar 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards

Keywords: by Edward J. Ludwig, Anna Elise Walton & Michael Beer
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities
  • 23 Aug 2013
  • News

CEO Ballmer to leave Microsoft

  • 12 May 2021
  • News

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

  • December 2024 (Revised March 2025)
  • Case

Strategy and CEO Succession at Starbucks

By: Krishna G. Palepu and David Lane
On August 13, 2024, Starbucks announced that Laxman Narasimhan who was appointed as the CEO only in September 2023, was stepping down as CEO and board director “with immediate effect.” Laxman would be replaced on September 9 by Brian Niccol, CEO since 2018 of Chipotle... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Management Succession; Cost Management; Labor Unions; Working Conditions; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Service Operations; Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resignation and Termination; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • 05 Nov 2019
  • News

Alumnus Named McDonald’s CEO

Chris Kempczinski (MBA 1997) has been named the new CEO of McDonald’s. Previously serving as McDonald's USA President, Kempczinski was instrumental in the recent turnaround of the iconic burger chain, a process which was detailed at... View Details
Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • March 1991 (Revised October 1991)
  • Case

CEO Evaluation at Dayton Hudson

By: Jay W. Lorsch
Describes the Dayton Hudson CEO evaluation process, one of the most intensive in corporate America today. The board of directors' role in the evaluation is examined, as is the question of whether the Dayton Hudson CEO evaluation process should serve as a model for... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Management Teams
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  • May–June 2015
  • Article

Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards

By: Edward Ludwig, Elise Walton and Michael Beer
The authors opine that ambitious chief executives (CEOs) of corporations need corporate boards which are also ambitious and accommodative of them. According to the authors good corporate governance and financial performance are the main requirements for good board-CEO... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession; Performance; Corporate Governance; Management Teams
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  • 27 Mar 2018
  • News

Why CEOs Are Taking a Stand

  • 16 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

The cult of the CEO is complex and persistent—and usually not good for business, says HBS professor Rakesh Khurana. Khurana recently fielded questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview about his... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jul 2024
  • News

Summer Reading for CEOs

  • 03 Jun 2021
  • News

CEOs Are the Problem