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Getting Women Onto Compensation Committees Helps To Reduce Gender Bias

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers looked at FTSE 100 companies from 2004 to 2013, with a particular focus on the first three years of each CEO’s tenure. The authors did this because the relative lack of performance data on the early period of a CEO’s tenure can heighten possible biases in the ways in which bosses are assessed.

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New Year. New Leader.

Lead Change Blog

To help us piece this together, I’ve invited fifteen different thought leaders, authors, editors, and CEOs to collaborate with me to parse this question and share their opinions. Bill George – He has taught leadership since 2004 and is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, where.

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?Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

Harvard Business Review

9, armed with about 1% of Apple’s outstanding stock, the hedge-fund activist published an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, urging him to accelerate the company’s stock repurchases by making a tender offer. In August 2013, Icahn bought more than $1 billion worth of Apple shares. Apple Economy Innovation'

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How to Turn Around Nearly Anything

Harvard Business Review

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Inconvenient facts are papered over.

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How Microsoft Avoided the Peter Principle with Nadella

Harvard Business Review

In one of the most widely scrutinized CEO successions ever, Microsoft directors selected insider Satya Nadella to run the company, only their third CEO pick in the firm’s nearly 40-year history. Even the sitting CEO who knew the three finalists as well as anybody was surprised. His challenges will be enormous.

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Employee Engagement Articles

Chart Your Course

Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. For Majority of Workers, Vacation Days Go Unused Boston Globe, December 2013. Gallup’s Workplace Jedi on How to Fix Our Employee Engagement Problem Fast Company, June, 2013. The Innovation Catalysts Harvard Business Review, June 2011.

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Take Ownership of Your Actions by Taking Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

Honda CEO Takanobu Ito may be demonstrating that concept in real time with his recent actions after the release of the new Honda Civic quickly fell short of expectations. Honda quickly followed up by announcing a new release for 2013, a year ahead of the original plan. In 2004, Leidich, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.