2014
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Do Not Split HR – At Least Not Ram Charan’s Way
November 24 | Dave Ulrich, PhD, Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan | Comments (0)Ram Charan’s recent column “It’s Time to Split HR” has created quite a stir. He argues that it’s the rare CHRO who can serve as a strategic leader for the CEO and also manage the internal concerns of the organization. I believe CHROs have much to offer CEOs.
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The Former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather on Personal Branding
November 24 | Joan Solotar, Senior Managing Director, External Relations & Strategy Group, Blackstone | Comments (0)Shelly Lazarus has been building brands at Ogilvy & Mather for more than 40 years. In this condensed and edited interview, Lazarus shares her thoughts on what “brand” really means in a career context, and why simply being yourself may be the best strategy of all—for women or for men.
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Case Study: Should a Female Director “Tone It Down”?
November 24 | Boris Groysberg, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School | Deborah Bell, Researcher of Organizational Behavior | Comments (0)Sarah was a longtime director of the company that J.P. ran, a Florida-based shopping-center-development group, and she was devoted to both him and his firm. But board meetings had been tense recently, and J.P. had grown distant.
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CEOs, Get to Know Your Rivals
November 20 | Leonard Fuld, President, Fuld & Company | Comments (0)In an interview, Cisco CEO John Chambers once remarked on his intimate knowledge of rival CEOs. He claimed that based on this insight he could anticipate their market moves one or even two steps in advance. I thought he might be exaggerating. I decided to test his claim.
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Why CEOs Should Follow the Market Basket Protests
November 20 | Zeynep Ton, Associate Professor, MIT's Sloan School of Management | Comments (0)Market Basket employees don’t seem to stick around just for the wages and good benefits. The rallies for Demoulas suggest that they truly believe in his leadership and the direction he set for the company.
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Resentment, Jealousy, Feuds: A Look at Intel’s Founding Team
November 05 | Michael S. Malone, Author, The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company | Comments (0)I have published one book and completed another. The published book is a history of Intel Corporation, largely told through its three famous founders. The finished book deals with the emerging science of team-building and management. And at the intersection of the two lies an interesting story.
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Beware the CEO Who Is Showered with Awards
October 30 | HBR The Daily Stat | Comments (0)Firms run by CEOs who had won major awards (such as CEO of the year) showed significant declines in stock prices, return on assets, and ability to meet market earnings expectations in the 3 years after the awards were won.
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What It’s Really Like to be a Female CEO
October 22 | HBR The Shortlist | Comments (0)Sheryl Sandberg may have claimed one of the catchiest titles of the decade for a whither-women book — Lean In — but Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi has a pretty good one too, if she ever wants to go there.
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What Made a Great Leader in 1776
October 22 | Jeffrey Gedmin, President and CEO, Legatum Institute | Comments (0)The ordinarily decisive George Washington was paralyzed by indecision. It was the summer of 1776, and the Continental Army was being routed by the British in New York. Sick from dysentery and smallpox, 20 percent of Washington’s forces were in no condition to fight.
