Jeffrey Immelt GE CEO and Jobs Czar
On Sunday night Lesley Stahl interviewed Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE on 6o Minutes. It was a wide ranging interview that touched on jobs creation, corporate taxes, and the increasingly international stance of many U.S. corporations. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 60 Minutes, corporate executives, GE, Jeffrey Immelt, job creation, leadership, Lesley Stahl, management
Celebrity Boards, Super Star CEO’s
The New York Times Dealbook today had a story entitled Handicapping the Investment of IAC in Chelsea Clinton by Steven M. Davidoff, former corporate lawyer who is a professor at Ohio State University. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Chelsea Clinton, corporate boards, corporate executives, female executives, IAC, leadership, management, McKinsey and Company, New York Times
The Big Payout
Eric Dash has an intriguing story in The New York Times today Outsize Severance Continues for Executives Even After Failed Tenures. Read the rest of this entry »
Lady Gaga and Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School is well known for its case study method. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Anita Elberse, case study method, entertainment, Harvard Business School, Lady Gaga, leadership, management
Is the Job Interview Overrated?
Tags: board of directors, career transitions, Ebay, female executives, Hewlett-Packard, hiring, interviewing, James B. Stewart, Leo Apotheker, management, Meg Whitman, Michael Useem, msnbc.com, phone interviews, The New York Times, University of Pennsylvania
What kind of week is it for Women Executives?
What kind of week has it been so far for women executives? It has been decidedly mixed. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: All Things D, Bank of America, career transitions, Carol Bartz, female executives, Jill Abramson, management, New York Times, Sallie Krawcheck, severance, Susan Chira, Yahoo
CEO’s into the Breach?
As the aftermath of the debt ceiling debate continued two CEO’s—Howard Schultz of Starbucks and Warren E. Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway stepped forward with ideas to mitigate the debt.
On Monday Mr. Schultz stepped forward to urge his fellow CEO’s to boycott campaign giving. The story in Bloomberg was Facebooked 3,000 times.
A day earlier Warren E. Buffett in an op-ed piece in The New York Times called on Congress to raise the taxes of wealthy Americans.
Under the headline “Stop Coddling the Super Rich” Mr. Buffett made the case of why taxes should be raised and as expected met with mixed results. There were those on the left who agreed with his argument. Some on the right said there was no reason he couldn’t make a private donation to the I.R.S.
Just over a year ago, Mr. Buffett, along with Bill and Melinda Gates met with great success when he prevailed upon 40 billionaires (you can read the list of who has signed a non-binding pledge to give away half their wealth, a total of $600 billion in all.
Months before Mr. Buffett put his plan into action Kevin Salwen and his daughter Hannah detailed their family’s experiences about living below their means and donating half the money to charity in The Power of Half (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010)
While Mr. Buffett probably wanted to start the conversation (he had previously written for The New York Times about buying stock during the height of the financial meltdown), he hasn’t gotten a lot of traction or buy-in about his latest proposal at this point. It sounds a lot more high minded to give to those in need than to bail out a government in debt.
Whether other CEO’s get on board remains to be seen. While some CEO’s may think one or both ideas have merit, their corporate responsibility is to the shareholders to make money.
You Can’t Fire Everyone by Hank Gilman
Hank Gilman, the Deputy Managing Editor of Fortune has come out with a new book, You Can’t Fire Everyone, a career reminisce packed with solid advice for all those who are a promoted to management and then find they need to stay ahead of the curve they didn’t know existed. It’s not just aimed at those who have reached the tippy top of management. For journalism buffs, its also offers insights on the recent transformations in the industry. Read the rest of this entry »
Where the Female Executives Are–Country by Country
Overall the numbers of senior executives dipped in the last two years according to research from the Grant Thorton International Business Report, an annual survery of the views of senior executives of privately held companies by the accounting and risk management firm of the same name. The percentage of female senior managers dipped from 24% tin 2009 to 20% in 2011.
Thailand led with 45% of senior management positions held by women, followed by Georgia (40%) Russia (36%) Hong Kong and the Phillipines (tied at 35% )
The data revealed the countries of the G7 lagged behind Asia/Pacific. Great Britain(23%) and the United States(15%). Stil the United States did better than Germany (11%) and Japan (9%). What can we learn from the Pacific Rim?
Lessons in Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Attention recently turned to corporate boards in Europe again after a report commissioned by the British government said women should comprise at least a quarter of the boards of the largest British companies by 2015. The report stopped short of the mandate that’s existed in Norway since 2005. There 40% of corporate boards are required to be women by law. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Amalia Miller, corporate boards, female executives, Frank Matsa, glass ceiling, leadership, management, mentoring, networking, stock prices
