N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
During our fascinating conversation, their soft-spoken CEO, Alexander Hardy , let me in on an unexpected secret. After all, the tacit knowledge in a scientist’s head, at some elite university, could be the missing link in a promising new, multi-billion-dollar compound that could help Genentech save millions of lives.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
They have an even harder time admitting that the answer might be new leadership. Research shows that only a small percentage of founder-CEOs have the skills and experience needed to ensure company growth and shareholder value beyond a startup’s early stage. For many, this means recognizing the need for a new CEO.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 31, 2018
Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. How People Get Ahead. They pursue management challenges.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 12, 2014
In a post on the company’s blog , CEO Elon Musk declared that Tesla’s “true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day.”. That gap is probably relevant in this market.”. Innovation Tech industry Technology'
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
Cathleen Black's appointment raises, first, the perennial question: Is leadership a highly contextual capability? In his 2002 book Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs , the Harvard Business School professor shows how the norm of CEO succession has changed over time.
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