Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

They have an even harder time admitting that the answer might be new leadership. As a venture begins achieving a solid foothold in the marketplace, it needs different leadership capabilities to create maximum shareholder value. For many, this means recognizing the need for a new CEO. But how can founders handle that transition?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

While business markets are obviously different from societies in many ways, they share more things in common, especially in today's networked world. Many companies, dipping their toes into social media and Web marketing, try to engage with bloggers who've built up audiences and exert influence over their buying decisions.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

You cannot presume that packaging is simply a matter of clever design that helps your products fly off the shelves of a super market. Consider the chief technology officer of a company who is able to influence standards by being on an industry body – the revenue impact of such a thing can be immense.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

In business, winning is often a matter of speed — to new markets with new offerings — rather than slow, steady plodding. For the hands-on managers, nearly 80% of CEOs took the most active role; in contrast, hands-off companies relied much more on their R&D head or chief technology officer.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The 70-year-old will stay on as the software giant’s executive chairman and also its chief technology officer — the latter title a formalization of a role he was already playing. Boards Leadership Technology' After 37 years in charge, Larry Ellison finally stepped down as Oracle’s CEO on Thursday.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“When you’re a technical expert, you know your value to the organization,” says Wanda Wallace, President and CEO of Leadership Forum and author of Reaching the Top. Your employees may ask questions that you don’t know the answers to and may not even fully understand.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Ellison will remain chairman of the board and will still serve as chief technology officer. While research has found that the market seems to like the co-CEO arrangement, there isn’t a clear-cut answer on its effectiveness. 2 executives, we believe, are those of a leader and a chief ally. Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom. attempt to change the leadership and strategic direction of the company.

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