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      The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most

      By: Raffaella Sadun, Joseph B. Fuller, Stephen Hansen and PJ Neal
      Landing a job as a CEO today is no longer all about industry expertise and financial savvy. What companies are really seeking are leaders with strong social skills. That’s what the authors discovered after analyzing nearly 7,000 job descriptions for C-suite roles....  View Details
      Keywords: C-Suite; Skills; Skills Development; Social Skills; Management Skills; Interpersonal Communication; Talent and Talent Management
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      Sadun, Raffaella, Joseph B. Fuller, Stephen Hansen, and PJ Neal. "The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 4 (July–August 2022): 42–50.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      The Demand for Executive Skills

      By: Stephen Hansen, Raffaella Sadun, Tejas Ramdas and Joseph B. Fuller
      We use a unique corpus of job descriptions for C-suite positions to document skills requirements in top managerial occupations across a large sample of firms. A novel algorithm maps the text of each executive search into six separate skill clusters reflecting...  View Details
      Keywords: C-Suite; Jobs and Positions; Competency and Skills; Management Skills; Job Search; Job Design and Levels
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      Hansen, Stephen, Raffaella Sadun, Tejas Ramdas, and Joseph B. Fuller. "The Demand for Executive Skills." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-133, June 2021.
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      Is This the Right C-Suite Role?

      By: Anne Donnellon, Joshua D. Margolis and Amy Gallo
      A Harvard Business School Case Study is presented which asks "Is This the Right C-Suite Role?" Experts Rakefet Russak Aminoach, managing partner at venture capital firm TeamB, and Nadia Rawlinson, chief people officer at Slack and a board director at Vail Resorts and...  View Details
      Keywords: Executives; Women Executives; Office Politics; Management Teams; Personal Development and Career
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      Donnellon, Anne, Joshua D. Margolis, and Amy Gallo. "Is This the Right C-Suite Role?" Harvard Business Review 99, no. 5 (September–October 2021): 148–152.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      The Demand for Executive Skills

      By: Stephen Hansen, Tejas Ramdas, Raffaella Sadun and Joseph B. Fuller
      We use a unique corpus of job descriptions for C-suite positions to document skills requirements in top managerial occupations across a large sample of firms. A novel algorithm maps the text of each executive search into six separate skill clusters reflecting...  View Details
      Keywords: Executives; Management Skills; Competency and Skills
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      Hansen, Stephen, Tejas Ramdas, Raffaella Sadun, and Joseph B. Fuller. "The Demand for Executive Skills." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28959, June 2021.
      • March 12, 2021
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      Is Your C-Suite Equipped to Lead a Digital Transformation?

      By: J. Yo-Jud Cheng, Cassandra Frangos and Boris Groysberg
      The pandemic has rapidly accelerated many companies’ digital efforts, but do they have the right executives in place to lead this sort of transformation? To answer this question, the authors analyzed more than 100 search specifications for C-suite positions in Fortune...  View Details
      Keywords: Management Teams; Information Technology; Transformation; Competency and Skills; Digital Transformation
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      Cheng, J. Yo-Jud, Cassandra Frangos, and Boris Groysberg. "Is Your C-Suite Equipped to Lead a Digital Transformation?" Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (March 12, 2021).
      • March 4, 2021
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      Are Your Managers in Sync with Your Change Strategy?

      By: Joseph B. Fuller and Bill Theofilou
      According to new research conducted by the authors, C-suite executives and upper management often don’t agree on how their organizations need to remake themselves for a post-COVID world. As a result, when CEOs and their teams begin implementing their plans, they are...  View Details
      Keywords: Post-COVID; Leadership; Change Management; Strategy
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      Fuller, Joseph B., and Bill Theofilou. "Are Your Managers in Sync with Your Change Strategy?" Harvard Business Review (website) (March 4, 2021).
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      Selling After the Crisis

      By: Frank V. Cespedes
      Like perishable goods in grocery stores, sales models have a sell-by date. As product standards evolve and new entrants emerge, buyers have more choices and demand more in terms of quality and performance across vendors. Firms that fail to adjust to changing customer...  View Details
      Keywords: Sales Model; Sales; Management; Customer Relationship Management; Health Pandemics
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      Cespedes, Frank V. "Selling After the Crisis." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 2 (March–April 2021): 52–57.
      • 2020
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      Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told

      By: David G. Fubini
      Hidden Truths delivers profound and rarely discussed insights about C-suite jobs that provide aspiring leaders with practical, new skills that will equip them for the immense challenges of their desired jobs. Through 14 illuminating chapters, accomplished...  View Details
      Keywords: Executive Development; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Competency and Skills
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      Fubini, David G. Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told. Wiley, 2020.
      • September 2019
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      Sonia Millar: Negotiating for the C-Suite

      By: Joshua D. Margolis and Anne Donnellon
      This case addresses the nuances of gender dynamics and career progression at the top of the organization, where even women who have strong leadership expertise, experience, and alliances with powerful male colleagues still get stuck. Told from the point of view of...  View Details
      Keywords: Executives; CEO; Promotion; Gender Bias; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Diversity; Power and Influence
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      Margolis, Joshua D., and Anne Donnellon. "Sonia Millar: Negotiating for the C-Suite." Harvard Business School Brief Case 920-555, September 2019.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Why Has Strategy Become Irrelevant? Understanding the Complete Strategy Landscape

      By: David J. Collis
      Developing the firm’s strategy was once seen as the most important task facing a CEO. Yet in the last 20 years, the practice of strategy has been relegated to a routinized function—part of the annual planning process, like performance management and succession planning...  View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Value Creation; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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      Collis, David J. "Why Has Strategy Become Irrelevant? Understanding the Complete Strategy Landscape." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-027, September 2019.
      • 2018
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      The Trust Imperative

      By: Richard Edelman, Stephen A. Greyser, E. Bruce Harrison and Tom Martin
      CHAPTER SUMMARY: Successful relationships depend on trust—trust between spouses, trust between parent and child, trust between enterprises and their stakeholders. This chapter focuses on the factors that build trust in organizations, as well as the forces that can...  View Details
      Keywords: Trust; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Communication
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      Edelman, Richard, Stephen A. Greyser, E. Bruce Harrison, and Tom Martin. "The Trust Imperative." Chap. 3 in The New Era of the CCO: The Essential Role of Communication in a Volatile World, edited by Roger Bolton, Don W. Stacks, and Eliot Mizrachi. New York: Business Expert Press, 2018.
      • April 2015
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      Accor: Designing an Asset-Right Business and Disclosure Strategy

      By: Mozaffar Khan and George Serafeim
      Sebastien Bazin was now in charge of Accor, the world's largest French hotelier, a CAC 40 company with 3,600 hotels in 92 countries and a market cap of €10 billion. Previously as the European head of Colony Capital, one of the largest private equity groups and the...  View Details
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      Khan, Mozaffar, and George Serafeim. "Accor: Designing an Asset-Right Business and Disclosure Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 115-036, April 2015.
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      Well Said: Why Articulating Your Strategy Can Set You Apart

      By: Frank V. Cespedes
      Senior finance managers now operate in an altered c-suite landscape. The executives reporting to the CEO have doubled in the past 30 years, mostly an increase in functional specialists, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration. Three decades...  View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Sales
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      Cespedes, Frank V. "Well Said: Why Articulating Your Strategy Can Set You Apart." AFP Exchange (Association for Finance Professionals) 35, no. 2 (March 2015): 49–51.
      • June 11, 2014
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      Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite

      By: Boris Groysberg
      What skills do companies prize in C-level executives? To answer these questions, we surveyed 32 senior search consultants at a top global executive-placement firm. Experienced search consultants typically interview hundreds and even thousands of senior executives; they...  View Details
      Keywords: Executive Ability; Management Skills; Learning
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      Groysberg, Boris. "Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (June 11, 2014).
      • March 18, 2014
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      The Seven Skills You Need to Thrive in the C-Suite

      By: Boris Groysberg
      What executive skills are most prized by companies today? How has that array of skills changed in the last decade, and how is it likely to change in the next ten years? To find out, I surveyed senior consultants in 2010 at a top-five global executive-search firm....  View Details
      Keywords: Executive Ability; Management Skills; Leadership; Competency and Skills
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      Groysberg, Boris. "The Seven Skills You Need to Thrive in the C-Suite." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (March 18, 2014).
      • December 2011
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      Courage in the C-Suite

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
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      Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Courage in the C-Suite." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 12 (December 2011).
      • March 2011
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      The New Path to the C-Suite

      By: Boris Groysberg, L. Kevin Kelly and Bryan MacDonald
      Job requirements at the top of corporations have changed. Companies have come to expect much more from their C-level executives, who need new and different skills to deal with today's business realities. Exactly what abilities do firms want in their leaders—now and in...  View Details
      Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Leadership; Management Skills; Personal Development and Career
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      Groysberg, Boris, L. Kevin Kelly, and Bryan MacDonald. "The New Path to the C-Suite." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011).
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      Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms—Virtual (Executive Education)

      By: David B. Yoffie
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      Without exception, the most valuable companies in the world today are platforms. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and many other firms have built their fortunes by facilitating innovation across global ecosystems or...  View Details
      Keywords: Platforms; Technology; Strategy; Digital Business; Social Networks; Self-driving Cars; Mobile Gaming; Esports; Financial Services; Online Retail; Ride-sharing; Search; Auctions; United States; Asia; China; Europe
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      Strategies for Value Creation (MBA Course)

      By: Benjamin C. Esty
      SVC is a capstone course that integrates topics from finance, strategy, and leadership. It is intentionally cross-functional and designed to force integration at the end  of the MBA program.  Students develop a value creation mindset and learn that value creation is an...  View Details
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