Fortune 500 - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2005
What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

smaller companies who are used to accountability." Stever Robbins commented, "Why do we even spend our time debating whether a Fortune 500 CEO is 'worth it'? Why, instead, don't we seek to hire... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

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

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

different story when it came to describing the personal goals and challenges that drive their individual enterprises. The marketplace today has recognized that without brown people you can't win.—Keith Clinkscales, Vanguarde Media After stints with several View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Winners and Losers at the Olympics

at 500 meters and silver at 1000, he showed his generosity and concern for those less fortunate by contributing his cash rewards from the U.S. Olympic Committee to a global charity that benefits children.... View Details

Keywords: Re: Stephen A. Greyser; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years."—Robin Ely But even with increasing representation, women still fill less than 15 percent of executive officer positions at Fortune 500... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

considered when CEO opportunities arise. To understand better the inner workings of the chief executive change process, Khurana began an extended period of field research. Between 1990 and 1996, he interviewed nearly forty board members of View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

21 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

trouble being promoted in certain work environments, and hold a tiny percentage of top corporate management positions. According to a 2010 report from research firm Catalyst, among Fortune 500 companies,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Market Research Meets the “People Factor”

Zaltman and Deshpandé started by conducting 16 separate interviews with managers and "research suppliers" from Fortune 500 companies and prominent research firms. The two then honed their inquiry... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

class, gender, and race. There has been some progress, but there is still a long way to go. Less than 5 percent of the Fortune 500 companies are headed by a woman or non-white man. We expect that to change... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

“diversity” really mean? “Is it a variety of types of rich, beautiful women on magazine covers?” she asked. “Is it a variety of types of magazine editors? A variety of types of people in power on the stages of award shows and in the boardrooms of View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

open source projects possible. Lastly, open source software foundations have been thrilled to receive support from Fortune 500 firms in the software industry. This support is attenuated by the fact that no... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

was torn. One of the best parts about being a professor is that you can study the questions that are most interesting to you and the business world. And the mystery behind this question was a key reason this was so interesting to me. Camerota: If you were a View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

Heineken in the Netherlands, or Cargill or Mars in the United States are the tip of a huge iceberg of successful and long-lived family firms worldwide. Even today around a third of Fortune 500 companies are... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

A recent conference at Harvard Business School addressed the on-the-ground reality of women leaders 50 years after the first women were admitted to the School's two-year MBA Program. And the reality is that women leaders are stuck—for example, women make up less than 5... View Details