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31 Aug 2013
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Hulbert on Investing: Beyond the Superstar CEO

14 Nov 2012
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Can Huge CEO Golden Parachutes Hurt You?

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

At a recent Harvard Business School conference, dozens of CEOs committed to the idea of working toward "higher-ambition" goals that go beyond just short-term shareholder value. Inspired by the book Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

June 2020
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Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (B)

By: Tsedal Neeley and Briana Richardson

With the economy in a freefall, MetricStream is losing customers, hemorrhaging cash and struggling to make payroll. Several board members are threatening to quit. Others are pressing to sell the company even at dismally low valuations. It’s 2008 and lightning has... View Details

Keywords: Race; Gender; Leadership Style; Risk and Uncertainty; Change; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; Technology Industry; California

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From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni

Careers From C-Suite to CEO Careers From C-Suite to CEO Interested in making the transition from C-suite executive to CEO? The path will be different for everyone, however, studies of successful CEOs, case... View Details

January 2025
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Communication Within Firms: Evidence from CEO Turnovers

By: Stephen Michael Impink, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

This paper uses novel, firm-level communication measures derived from communications metadata several months before and after a CEO transition for 102 firms to study whether and how this organizational event is reflected in employees’ communication flows. We find that... View Details

Keywords: Information; Communication; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Alignment

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22 Apr 2016
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Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

By: Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean and Nitin Nohria

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A Letter to the CEO

By: Joseph B. Fuller

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October 2005
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ProfitLogic: Scott Friend, CEO (DVD)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michael J. Roberts

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01 Mar 2007
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Avon CEO Jung on Leadership

Jung Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc., knows a thing or two about reinvention. After taking over the venerable beauty-products firm in 1999, she helped it shed the last vestiges of its “Ding-dong, Avon calling” image... View Details

Keywords: makeup; grooming; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

27 Jan 2014
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Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

Two years ago, the World Management Survey on organizational leadership reported that firms led by family CEOs (managers related to the family owning the business) are often managed badly, particularly those where a first-born son has... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel