CEO Succession - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Apr 2021
News

Get Ready for the Relationship Renaissance

Photo courtesy of Hinge Photo courtesy of Hinge With vaccines more readily available and the world inching toward recovery, Justin McLeod (MBA 2011), founder and CEO of the dating app Hinge, predicts singles will be getting serious about... View Details

Keywords: Private Households; Personal Services

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, a panel moderator. "But that strength has to be nurtured." She added, "We count on start-ups for job growth in America. Start-ups turn out to be more View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

31 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

Published: March 5, 2012 The stuffy department store chain has become emboldened under new CEO Ron Johnson, with plans for an innovative store upgrade, simplified prices, and a brand polish. Professor Rajiv Lal discusses whether Johnson... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Jun 2016
News

Rethinking Housing in the Motor City

thinking ‘where is the best opportunity going to be for me professionally?—I couldn’t move back to Detroit,” Rhea says. Instead, he went into finance in New York. After the financial collapse he left banking for a position as chairman and View Details

Keywords: April White

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

Henri-Louis Bergson’s injunction: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Your View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

29 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

remaining CEO of the venture versus bringing in an experienced CEO who could build a more valuable company. The very different choices that I saw founders making regarding these co-founder, investor, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

maximizing shareholder value as the primary focus and motivation for a corporation's existence” Topics tackled include how boards can most effectively oversee company strategy, CEO succession, and executive compensation. Also considered... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Apr 2002
News

Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms In their new book Aligning the Stars: How to Succeed When Professionals Drive Results (Harvard Business School Press), HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch and former Bain & Company View Details

Keywords: professional service firms; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

07 Mar 2014
Blog Post

Let’s Go! Highlights from the Dynamic Women in Business Conference

their own list of next steps toward leading a more balanced, satisfying, and successful career. The conference was graced with the presence of 4 distinguished keynote speakers: Maria Renz (CEO, Quidsi): Maria Renz – in addition to... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Understanding the Digital Frontier

LI AND BERNOFF: Executives can’t afford to turn their backs on social networking. Nothing gives CEOs and marketers instant heartburn more than seeing their hard-won brand equity hijacked by forces beyond their control — too often by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management

01 Jun 2008
News

Library Dues

The son of a linen- and curtain-store owner, Steve Schwarzman (MBA ’72), chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group, has done pretty well for himself in life; he attributes a measure of that success to the... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

28 Jun 2016
First Look

June 28, 2016

economic thought and contested antitrust law, ultimately tailoring federal policy to accommodate state regulations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49787 Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

entrepreneurial communities and four recent trends in entrepreneurial activity. The characteristics that make entrepreneurship thrive, said Stevenson, include: resource mobility; reinvestment in the community; joy in the success of... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

Why do so many wanna-be entrepreneurs like Scott Rozic, founder and CEO of XMarkstheSpot, head for Silicon Valley? The reason may seem as obvious as why Willie Sutton robbed banks—because that's where the money is. But it's really more... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

01 Sep 2005
News

Predictable Surprises

BAZERMAN: There are many examples of predictable surprises at the corporate level. In a succession of wakeful nights after the attacks of 9/11, HBS professor Max Bazerman began to ponder the question of how the terrorists’ actions could... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

27 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

Kanter says. "One member of the team had actually built several successful IT companies and so knew a lot about marketing. But because he had been hired for a technology job, the CEO would listen to him... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

A year of COVID-19 limbo has turned the notion of self-care into a mainstream pursuit. After all, with the pandemic’s end on the distant horizon, we all just need to hang in there a little longer—even CEOs. Earlier this month, we looked at the worries occupying the... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

This separate-yet-connected structure allows leaders to provide freedom to some to blaze a new trail, while protecting the ability of others to stay on the tried-and-true path. "You need to separate out your innovators and let them do crazy and radical... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

popular second-year MBA course Authentic Leadership Development (ALD), which he has compressed into a five-day Executive Education program at Harvard Business School. "The most successful leaders will not necessarily be those with... View Details