Fortune 500 - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

Despite calls for making the workplace more equitable, women, particularly Black women, continue to get the short end of the stick at work. Only 6 percent of the top 3,000 companies in the US are led by a woman. In 2022, only two Black women served as CEOs of View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

03 Jan 2023
What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

Scouts of the USA from 1976 to 1990, was ranked by Fortune magazine in 2015, according to her obituary, as the “37th in its list of the world’s 50 greatest leaders, ahead of Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase.” Peter... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

09 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

Fortune 500 companies reportedly provide mentoring opportunities to new employees. Data on the effectiveness of these programs are thin, so Stanton and his colleagues sought to find out whether mentorship... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

18 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

many in the Fortune 500, according to its website. Gallani wondered if a multitude of clients might lead to the creation of one-size-fits-all packages, or, because of the consultants’ dedicated expertise, would lead to expertly designed,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

employees in organizations ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations to government bureaucracies reveal that silence can exact a high psychological price on individuals, generating feelings... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

male-to-male hobnobbing could account for 39 percent of the gender gap in pay. Most women feel left out at work A survey of more than 100,000 men and women at more than 60 Fortune 500 companies found that 82... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

strikes. It's as if doing so is tantamount to admitting failure as a leader. This tension is not necessarily surprising. Fortune 500 CEOs are some of the most driven, results-oriented people on the planet.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at Harvard Business School. Roughly 42 percent of Fortune 500 companies said they’d reached an environmental target or committed... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

that black families’ median wealth will decrease to $0 by the year 2050, while white families’ median wealth will exceed $100,000. There are currently no black women Fortune 500 CEOs, and at the sixteen... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

go to theaters and count the number of ticket stubs. Smarter Pricing A completely different interorganizational control problem was solved by the Fortune 500 medical supply distributor, Owens & Minor,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407062 Liz Claiborne and the New Working Woman Harvard Business School Case 407-060 At age 47, with two decades of experience as a lead designer for a Fortune View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

Harvard President Drew Faust herself noted at the start of the conference, women are still underrepresented at the top levels of government and business, both in the United States and abroad. Only 4 percent of Fortune View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

10 Nov 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

think so. In this study, researchers looked at how the policy announcement affected the stock valuations of 471 Fortune 500 firms. “We find that the June 22 shock eroded the market valuation of the 471... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

movement from this advisory-body model to the correct governance model, but with miles and miles to go. And a parameter of how many miles to go is the percentage of Fortune 500 companies where the chairman... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

Harvard Business Review Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women By: Roberts, Laura Morgan, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely, and David Thomas Abstract—Any list of top CEOs reveals a stunning lack of diversity. Among the leaders of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

And future growth prospects are baked into stock market valuations of companies. Yet an increasingly high percentage of Fortune 500 CEOs have not come up the ranks through marketing or sales. At the same... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

It's getting a little less lonely at the top. So says recent research that reports a dramatic change in the top management structure of large US firms. According to a survey of some 300 Fortune 500... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

about the most interesting business trends of the year, and your predictions for 2021. Top 10 most popular stories Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk Ken Frazier, one of only four Black CEOs of View Details