Research & Insight Explore our insights on leadership, board and governance issues, organizational culture and more.
How to Size Up Your Next Job Opportunity Notes from the recent Spencer Stuart CMO Summit in San Francisco.
European CFO Route to the Top An analysis of the background and experience of CFOs in the 10 major European indices.
Leadership in the Era of Digital Transformation Jonathan Lewin, president, CEO and chairman of the board of Emory Healthcare, says that digital has been central to his organization’s three-fold revenue growth over the past decade.
Institutional Investor Focus 2020: Board Composition Four areas of board composition where institutional investors will likely be turning their attention in the year ahead.
Boards Around the World An interactive exploration of how boards around the world compare in terms of diversity, composition, compensation and more.
Increasing the Diversity of Experience, Expertise and Ideas in the Boardroom Our predictions for the top board trends in 2020 and their implications for boards.
The Five Most Common New Director Questions Directors from around the world share what they learned from their first board experience.
Women Leaders: How We Got Here From sponsorship to P&L opportunities, C-level women share the factors that contributed to their success.
More Diversity, More Complexity: Is Your Culture Evolving Fast Enough? Infrastructure builds hard assets, but rising complexity and diversity mean soft skills will matter more to ensure success in the future.
Six Ways for Leaders and Organizations to Foster Inclusion and Diversity Insights on how leaders and organizations can embed inclusion and diversity in the workplace and make them part of the culture.
Helping Place 2,000 Women on Corporate Boards Around the World Ensuring the advancement of women in the boardroom for more than four decades.
How Boards Can Overcome the Most Common Succession Planning Obstacles We examine the most common challenges boards face in CEO succession planning and consider ways boards can overcome these obstacles to establish a rigorous and effective succession planning approach.
Prioritizing Experience Our research shows no discernable link between CEO experience and shareholder returns. We share other criteria that may provide a fuller picture of potential performance.
Making Your Next Move: The Three Fs of Job Selection Even the most effective leaders can struggle to make decisions at crucial pivot points in their careers. This framework can help.
Four Paths to the C-Suite Characteristics of executives who have successfully followed these four primary routes to the top.