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  • March 9, 2023
  • Article

Linking Growth and the Frontline
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Jay Galeota and Michael Wong
Most strategies are about growing the business. But about one quarter of companies do not grow at all and, even before the pandemic, only one in eight achieved more than 10% revenue growth annually, according to data from S&P Global regulatory filings. One reason is a...  View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Competency and Skills
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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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  • 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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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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  • 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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  • March 12, 2021
  • Article

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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  • March 4, 2021
  • Article

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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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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  • 2020
  • Book

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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  • September 2019
  • Case

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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  • 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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  • 2018
  • Chapter

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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  • April 2015
  • Case

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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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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  • June 11, 2014
  • Article

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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  • March 18, 2014
  • Article

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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  • December 2011
  • Article

Courage in the C-Suite
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
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  • March 2011
  • Article

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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Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms—Virtual (Executive Education)
By: David B. Yoffie
Summary

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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How to Manage Workforce Risk Amid Old Challenges, New Disruptions
By: Joseph B. Fuller
C-suites and boards have an opportunity to improve management and expand governance of their workforce to mitigate related risks more effectively  View Details
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