Growing CEOs from the Inside
| Q&A with: | Joseph L. Bower |
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| Published: | November 14, 2007 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Who is the best CEO candidate? An insider with intimate knowledge of your company, or an outsider who is ready to put sacred cows out to pasture? The answer, says HBS professor Joseph L. Bower, is both. In this Q&A, he discusses his new book, The CEO Within, and why inside-outsiders are the key to succession planning.
Published in 2006
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
| Published: | November 22, 2006 |
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| Feature: | Views on News |
When Ford Motor Company looked to replace Bill Ford as CEO, it turned not to another auto industry insider but instead to Boeing's Alan Mulally. We talk with Harvard Business School professor Joseph L. Bower to better understand Ford's move and the larger issues of CEO succession.
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
| Published: | May 29, 2006 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Company-specific skills may be valuable in a new job under the right conditions, say Harvard Business School's Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean, and Nitin Nohria. They studied GE; here's an excerpt from Harvard Business Review.
Published in 2001
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
| Published: | July 23, 2001 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
In searching for a new CEO, many companies depend on board contacts to find candidates and diminish the role of search firms. And that may be a big mistake, suggests HBS assistant professor Rakesh Khurana.
