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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
An Admirable CEO
With CEOs being viewed in a harsh light these days, Business Week (September 23, 2002) profiled six corporate leaders who “have built enduring U.S. companies without bending the rules.” Among them was Reuben Mark (MBA '63), chairman and...
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- 2017
- Chapter
Are Founder CEOs Good Managers?
By: Victor Manuel Bennett, Megan Lawrence and Raffaella Sadun
We investigate the management practices adopted by firms where the founders are also the CEOs using data from the World Management Survey. We find that founder CEO firms have the lowest management scores of any owner-manager pair type and that this difference is...
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Bennett, Victor Manuel, Megan Lawrence, and Raffaella Sadun. "Are Founder CEOs Good Managers?" Chap. 4 in Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges. Vol. 75, edited by John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar, 153–185. Studies in Income and Wealth (NBER). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- 19 Nov 2013
- News
More Boards Recruit Former CEOs
- 18 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?
compensation packages look so similar to each other? “Many of them stated that the design of the CEO compensation package was heavily reliant on the proposals produced by the compensation consultant” That’s the main question Susanna...
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- June 1990 (Revised October 1993)
- Case
Phil Knight: CEO at NIKE--1983
By: Richard E. Walton
An edited, shortened version of Phil Knight: CEO at Nike with parts of Nike (E) integrated into it.
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Keywords:
Management Teams;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Sports Industry
Walton, Richard E. "Phil Knight: CEO at NIKE--1983." Harvard Business School Case 390-038, June 1990. (Revised October 1993.)
- March 2017 (Revised October 2017)
- Supplement
CEO Activism (B)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Aaron K. Chatterji and Julia Kelley
Supplements the (A) case.
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Toffel, Michael W., Aaron K. Chatterji, and Julia Kelley. "CEO Activism (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 617-048, March 2017. (Revised October 2017.)
- June 2011
- Article
The Ambidextrous CEO
By: Michael L. Tushman, Wendy K. Smith and Andy Binns
Keywords:
Management
Tushman, Michael L., Wendy K. Smith, and Andy Binns. "The Ambidextrous CEO." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 6 (June 2011): 74–80.
- 23 Feb 2017
- News
Alcan CEO Remembered
- 02 Jan 2024
- What Do You Think?
Do Boomerang CEOs Get a Bad Rap?
(AdobeStock/Vincent) The return of Robert Iger as CEO of Walt Disney followed by a poorer-than-expected company performance has rekindled the debate about whether the decision to bring back formerly successful View Details
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by James Heskett
- 16 Oct 2009
- News
Beware Superstar CEOs
- 05 Nov 2019
- News
Alumnus Named McDonald’s CEO
Chris Kempczinski (MBA 1997) has been named the new CEO of McDonald’s. Previously serving as McDonald's USA President, Kempczinski was instrumental in the recent turnaround of the iconic burger chain, a process which was detailed at...
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- 27 Nov 2012
- News
Investors Demand CEO Face Time
- 16 Mar 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards
- 23 Aug 2013
- News
CEO Ballmer to leave Microsoft
- 30 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The Life and Role of a CEO
Miho Sakuma (MBA '20) is from Tokyo, Japan and graduated with a major in history at Williams College. Prior to HBS, Miho worked in management consulting for Mickinsey in the Tokyo and New Jersey offices. As a former management consultant, I always found it exciting to...
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- 10 Apr 2019
- News
The rise of CEO activism
- May–June 2015
- Article
Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards
By: Edward Ludwig, Elise Walton and Michael Beer
The authors opine that ambitious chief executives (CEOs) of corporations need corporate boards which are also ambitious and accommodative of them. According to the authors good corporate governance and financial performance are the main requirements for good board-CEO...
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Keywords:
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Management Succession;
Performance;
Corporate Governance;
Management Teams
Ludwig, Edward, Elise Walton, and Michael Beer. "Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards." NACD Directorship 41, no. 3 (May–June 2015): 56–59.
- 12 May 2021
- News
The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the...
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- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
The cult of the CEO is complex and persistent—and usually not good for business, says HBS professor Rakesh Khurana. Khurana recently fielded questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview about his...
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by Martha Lagace