Strategy

All indications are that Covid-19 will be with us deep into 2021 and perhaps even longer. We can no longer hope that the worst is behind us and soon we will be able to go back to “the way it’s supposed to be.” The ongoing pandemic poses a once-in-a-generation challenge to CEOs and business leaders.

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Brembo’s bright red calipers have been showing up on the wheels of more and more performance and luxury automobiles in the U.S. market, a true badge of upscale standing for consumers seeking a new way of saying they’ve arrived. Now, the global CEO of the Italy-based brake manufacturer is seeking to raise the major supplier’s

As we move through the final months of this tumultuous year, the news is almost unimaginable: 200,000-plus dead of Covid in the U.S. alone, crushing unemployment, hundreds of thousands of shuttered businesses across the nation. Given where we’ve been, it is easy to overlook the crisis that did not happen: Another global financial meltdown. A good bit

Timing is everything. In March, after a career as a pediatrician, public health official — including service as an Admiral in the U.S. Public Health Services Commissioned Corps — and Assistant Secretary of Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and leadership roles at Walmart, I was named CEO of Herbalife Nutrition. I

The Covid-19 pandemic surged at a time when great transformation was already under way, and the pace at which the business landscape is changing has accelerated tenfold in 2020. A recent survey conducted by Chief Executive in collaboration with Myrtle Consulting Group found that half of the CEOs who participated in the study believe Covid

The following is an excerpt from Robert Rosenberg’s new leadership book, out this week, As I worked at my job, I thought a good deal about what tasks and qualities were important to be a good leader or CEO. The following are my conclusions: 1. Strategy: The CEO is the steward of the strategic direction

In the early ’70s, Gordon Moore led the bold shift from storage to microprocessing at Intel and in the process completely redesigned the business. Half a century on, we still feel assured with that ‘chip inside’. Not every innovation needs to be on such a grand scale; incremental improvements like adapting an existing product, improving

In part one of this two-article series, Scott Settersten, CFO of cosmetics, fragrances and skin care products retailer Ulta Beauty, had made a series of tough decisions, beginning with canceling the company’s annual 2,000-person-strong general managers meeting and culminating in the closing of all 1,254 stores on March 19. Through the end of April, other

Colonel Lee Van Arsdale (then Major, first row, right) led the Delta assault troop that captured Manual Noriega, Panama’s ‘de facto’ dictator, as part of Operation Just Cause in 1989. The troop poses in front of Noreiga’s home after his capture.” Risk comes in so many different flavors that it makes Baskin Robbins’ ice cream

Clearcover Car Insurance is the kind of hybrid startup that could help transform the American heartland into a formidable counterweight to traditional tech havens as the ravages of Covid-19 continue to disturb digital ecospheres on the east and west coasts. The Chicago-based company has exploited what could be emerging as a sweet spot of the

Ask any CEO if they want “marketing” and they’ll nod and speak to the value of an attractive website, a recent trade show, or their latest brochure. Ask that same CEO if they want “sales” and the answer will be far simpler…and more enthusiastic. The Internet killed the pure cold call years ago, and marketing

Barry Zekelman is trying to pierce through all the noise of this season of American political and social unrest with a message that he believes is as timely and important as anything else at the moment: Let’s bring manufacturing back to America. In a series of full-page advertisements in The Wall Street Journal, the CEO

Few CEOs can claim the kind of longevity that Bob Rosenberg can. In 1963, William Rosenberg, who opened the first Dunkin’ Donuts shop in 1950 on the Southern Artery in Quincy, Massachu­setts, tapped his son, Robert, at the tender age of 25, to lead the family business, which comprised a portfolio of eight small food

Like other retail CFOs, Scott Settersten at Ulta Beauty had never come across a more formidable foe than Covid-19. The difference is that Ulta Beauty survived to tell the tale, its entire fleet of 1,254 stores intact and reopened for business. A different fate befell many other large retailers, including such iconic chains as Neiman

In the world of education and workforce readiness, the field where I work, we often hear the refrain that “diverse talent” that meets the skills and depth of the new economy or demands of lucrative executive positions is “hard to find.” In fact, this problematic point of view is so common that in September, the

If your company was presented with the opportunity to retool its product line around personal protective equipment during a global pandemic, would you seize it? Most of us would like to believe our answer would be a resounding “Yes.” During the spring lockdown period, you couldn’t miss the stories about how pivoting to the PPE

Although we’ve all suffered enough with the ongoing pandemic, it’s classic gambler’s fallacy to believe one’s business is “due” for a period of quiet stability. Rather, the chances of any given business disruption — fire, flood, earthquake, cyberattack, supply chain failure or another pandemic — are just as high as always. And by that, I

Everyone starts out with the best of intentions. As a new founder or a newly-promoted leader, you begin making promises to yourself, swearing that you’ll be the compassionate boss you wished you had as an overworked intern, the thoughtful leader who can inspire hope and dedication even in the toughest of times. You will be

Work has radically changed. Offices are empty. Kitchen tables and sofas are the new work cubicle. Daily commutes have changed from 45 minutes on the highway to four minutes walking from a bedroom to a home office. Interactions with co-workers, vendors, and clients are completely virtual. Zoom is now both a verb and a noun.