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How Important Are CEOs To Firm CSR Success?

The Horizons Tracker

New research from HEC Paris explores the key role the CEO can play in the success of CSR initiatives and finds that the boss can actually provide up to a 30% boost in CSR performance. The researchers examined over 1,000 American firms to try and understand how influential CEOs were on the CSR outcomes of their firms.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

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Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? CEO…that title sounds good doesn’t it? What does a CEO really do anyway? Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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Overpaid CEOs a Huge Red Flag for Company Stability, Shareholder Advocacy Group Says

HR Digest

According to a report by As You Sow , a shareholder advocacy firm, 2021 saw a significant increase in shareholder rejections of CEO pay packages. More than half of shareholders rejected CEO pay packages at 16 companies last year, up from ten in 2020 and seven in 2019.

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Leveraging Down for CEOs | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Think of any top performing CEO and you’ll find that to the one, they possess an uncanny ability to focus on highest and best use activities. While most executives that have reached the C-suite level understand the importance of scaling via delegation, far too many CEOs struggle with the effective implementation of the concept.

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Should CEOs Have Term Limits? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

It’s no surprise that just 12% of CEOs are from working-class backgrounds. Cracking the boardroom The researchers analyzed over 1,500 German firms (and their CEO) to explore whether different industries had different social classes in the boardroom.

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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. People, Policies and Processes. Or the CEO who shares her password with her husband and children so they can access her mail and messaging accounts.