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Research Suggests Firms Should Look Externally For New Bosses

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers draw inspiration from the private equity industry, where around 75% of new CEOs are drawn from outside the firm, with two-thirds regarded as “complete outsiders” This is almost the exact opposite of recruitment in S&P 500 firms. The rewards for both the executive and the firm are substantial.

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Think SoLoMo or SoCoLoMo – Social Commerce, Local & Mobile – For Digital Success

Modern Servant Leader

Social CEOs : 77% of buyers say they are more likely to buy from a company whose CEO uses social media1. Employee Trust: 82% of employees say they trust a company more when the CEO and leadership team communicate via social media. Billion in 2010 to 7.9 Forrester Research: US Cross-channel Retail Forecast 2011 to 2016.

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Want some grub?

CEO Blog

I did not have a problem with screen time in China since China banned Google in 2010. I attended Ideacity in 2016. I am increasingly thinking screen time is making us dumber (except of course reading this blog). And it made me realize how much I Google things – Yahoo did work though. EG – using a blow torch to cook duck.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6

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Carlos Ghosn, Nissan, and the Need for Stronger Corporate Governance in Japan

Harvard Business Review

Ghosn was recently arrested for financial misconduct, fired from his position as Nissan’s board chairman, and criticized by Nissan’s Japanese CEO for accumulating too much power. His discretion undermined the connection between company performance and CEO pay that investors want to see.

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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

” Jeff Immelt, former CEO of General Electric. In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. Netflix was founded in 1997; Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010. Bloomberg/Getty Images.

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McDonald’s Has to Do More than Manipulate Its Stock Price

Harvard Business Review

A central plank of the plan is to “return $8 [billion] to $9 billion to shareholders in 2015 and to reach the top end of its three-year target of returning $18 billion to $20 billion to them by the end of 2016.” In the period 2006 through 2014, the total pay of McDonald’s CEO varied from a low of $3.6

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