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  • 'What the voices of female executives reveal on investor calls

    • 6 Mar 2024
    • Anjli Raval

    Scrutiny of women at the top of companies can be brutal and unsparing. Nowhere more so than in the Wall Street ritual of the earnings call where executives face questions from financial analysts and investors over the latest set of results.

  • Research from the Boardroom

    CEO turnover: Cross-country effects

    • 28 Feb 2024
    • Natasha Burns, Kristina Minnick, Laura Starks

    Chief executive officers (CEOs) are considered critically important to the functioning of a corporation, providing the key leadership role for the company's operations. Just as important is the corporate board that determines whether to keep or dismiss the CEO. The authors sought to understand important aspects of the board's contracting and monitoring processes, through which culture may affect CEO turnover.

  • Boardroom

    Why companies are tapping the boardroom for their next CEO

    • 24 Jan 2024
    • Anjli Raval

    As Chief Executive vacancies rise, so does the appeal of insider-outsider candidates. Board members are separate enough to enact change, but hold detailed knowledge of the company's culture, strategy, and goals.

  • Warren Buffett, aged 93, tops a ranking of global

    In search of chief executives who never grow 'old'

    • 3 Jan 2024
    • Andrew Hill

    An increasing number of big companies are abandoning or waiving mandatory retirement ages in favor of competance-based executive appraisal.

  • Colleagues in Government

    Whitehall seeks to turbocharge recruitment from the private sector

    • 20 Dec 2023
    • Lucy Fisher

    Recruiting industry executives to civil service is one pillar of Britain's strategy to tackle the public sector’s productivity problem.

  • Why personal conduct is a growing risk for business

    • 13 Dec 2023
    • Anjli Raval

    Embarrassing revelations about senior leaders can damage trust and cause significant upheaval.

  • Bosses won’t like it but WFH is a happier way to work

    • 29 Nov 2023
    • Simon Kuper

    Homeworking is not just a corporate issue, it’s a chance to create a better society.

  • Mental health

    Having the conversation about mental health at work

    • 1 Nov 2023
    • Ben Parr

    Keep questions non-judgmental, do not make assumptions, do recognise boundaries

  • Chief Political Officer

    Every big business needs its own Chief Political Officer

    • 25 Oct 2023
    • Camilla Cavendish

    Rolling crises have ensured that government relations is no longer a backwater department

  • Gen Z worker

    You can’t pin workforce problems all on Gen Z

    • 18 Oct 2023
    • Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson

    Managers must take time to help ease the anxieties of a Covid generation

  • Agathe Monpay, CEO

    Younger CEOs may be an answer to business uncertainty

    • 4 Oct 2023
    • Peggy Hollinger

    The average age of chief executives is falling — but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing

  • Cal Newport

    How Cal Newport rewrote the productivity gospel

    • 27 Sep 2023
    • Courtney Weaver

    His strategies for stressed-out knowledge workers have sold 2mn books. What does he know that we don’t?

  • "Mattering" in the workplace

    Why ‘mattering’ in the workplace doesn’t really matter

    • 20 Sep 2023
    • Jemima Kelly

    The new buzzword will do little to make employees feel more valued

  • Esther Crawford

    Have CEOs lost patience with hybrid working?

    • 6 Sep 2023
    • Delphine Strauss

    Increasing ‘back to the office’ mandates suggest a shift in post-pandemic flexibility

  • Middle Managers

    ‘The flattening’: tech sector calls time on middle managers

    • 30 Aug 2023
    • Hannah Murphy

    Moves to carve out a layer of staff aim to speed up decisions but could leave a talent gap

  • Business travel has not bounced back — and there is no guarantee it will

    • 23 Aug 2023
    • Pilita Clark

    High air fares, flexible working patterns and climate change concerns will continue to weigh on the industry

  • Laxman Narasimhan, Starbucks’ CEO

    Lonely bosses seek opportunity in a crisis of disconnection

    • 2 Aug 2023
    • Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson

    Bosses like to complain that it is lonely at the top. Lately, they have been worrying about how lonely it seems everywhere else.

  • Elon Musk

    Don’t fall for the fashion of the hardcore chief executive

    • 12 Jul 2023
    • Andrew Hill

    The best leaders should toggle between leadership styles according to the conditions

  • Workplace well-being

    Workplace wellbeing: how to make it better — and what makes it worse

    • 5 Jul 2023
    • Andrew Jack

    New research shows work-related stress and health issues are rising, but flexibility and support from managers can help.

  • Lockdowns are over. WFH isn’t. Why?

    • 28 Jun 2023
    • Tim Harford

    Each February, the team at NPR’s fabulous Planet Money podcast announce their Valentines, nerdy love letters to under-appreciated data releases or obscure supply-chain trackers.