CEO skills - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Mar 2014
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7 Skills Needed to Thrive in the C-Suite

Keywords: CEO skills; leadership; management skills

26 Nov 2021
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Today’s CEOs Need Hands-On Digital Skills

16 Jun 2022
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CEO Recruiters Increasingly Prize Soft Skills

23 Jun 2022
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The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most

12 Jan 2013
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In Defense of the CEO

13 Apr 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

Photos by Kunle Ogunfuyi Even a college degree couldn’t help Temi Abiola, who grew up in Nigeria, land a job. Though he speaks fluent English, he lacked the problem-solving and customer relations skills required for his dream job in the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

05 Jan 2014
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No CEO Is Perfect

Keywords: leadership; managementment

05 Jun 2018
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Howard Schultz has tremendous skills that would transfer to politics

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

04 Oct 2021
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Ambitious? Learn What Companies Actually Want in a CEO

09 Jul 2013
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Can Zynga’s New CEO Turn The Stock Around?

09 Sep 2016
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Marla Malcolm Beck’s Path to CEO

In a New York Times piece that asks “How to Become a C.E.O.?”, Marla Malcolm Beck (MBA 1998) is highlighted as an example of the entrepreneurial path one can take to the chief executive position. Malcolm Beck, the founder and CEO of... View Details

14 Oct 2014
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Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills

wonder of the open seas. “Ninety-one percent of the people who go through our program say they have an easier time conquering life’s other challenges,” he says. A competitive sailor who raced in the Paralympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and in London in 2012, Callahan... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work

companies as well as for the discussants. Because the CEOs of each company were there to participate in the discussions, the dialogue was interesting, lively, and productive. "Ours was a grassroots effort to get involved in the... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues

draws for new business, including location, lifestyle, a loyal and dedicated work force, and a sophisticated fiber-optic telecommunications system. It also lays out the problems that new businesses face, such as high taxes and a lack of capital and properly View Details

Keywords: Janine Brunell Looker