Ram Charan

Long-term value creation - the board's new agenda. A big shift in public ownership has created a new set of challenges for boards. Much of the $14 trillion of assets that firms like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street manage is now held in index funds, creating a huge class of permanent institutional investors who own almost 60 percent of the...

Is your firm's board creating value—or destroying it? Change is coming. Leadership at the top is being redefined as boards take a more active role in decisions that once belonged solely to the CEO. However, with the advantages of increased board engagement come debilitating questions of authority and the risk of dangerous meddling in day-to-day operations. Directors need a new...

Invest in your most valuable resource: your people. Top talent is hard to come by. And seeing your stars walk out the door is painful - and expensive. You need to take steps to ensure that you attract, develop, and retain your best people. If you read nothing else on managing talent in your organisation, read these 10 articles. We've...

Radical Advice for Reinventing Talent—and HR Most executives today recognise the competitive advantage of human capital, yet the talent practices their organisations use are stuck in the twentieth century. Typical talent-planning and HR processes are designed for predictable environments, traditional ways of getting work done, and organisations where "lines and boxes" still define how people are managed. As work and...

Your world as a director has suddenly changed. You've seen members of other boards take the heat when their companies imploded. The managements of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Washington Mutual clearly failed, but so did their boards. Now the board of every company beset with problems is coming under scrutiny. The pressure is on. Your board must...

Set up your company for long-term success by building and reinforcing your leadership pipeline In the newly revised third edition of The Leadership Pipeline, a team of veteran leadership practitioners delivers a practical and essential framework for identifying future leaders, assessing their competence, planning their development, nurturing their talents, and analysing the results of your efforts. The work to be...

If you read nothing else on reinventing human resources, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones on how HR leaders can partner with the C-suite, drive change throughout the organisation, and develop the workforce of the future. This book will inspire you to: Overhaul performance management practices to...

Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers—and how to make better ones. If you read nothing else on decision making, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you and your organisation make better choices and avoid common traps. Leading experts such as...

Serving on a board is like having a second full-time job. Earning a seat on a board is a rite of passage for senior leaders. It offers an opportunity to share your skills and extend your reach beyond your own organisation as you help select, appoint, and review the performance of an organisation's senior leadership team, determine compensation and incentive...