The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:20:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png The Effective Chair-CEO Relationship: Insights from the Boardroom – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 The Effective Chair-CEO Relationship: Insights from the Boardroom https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/03/17/the-effective-chair-ceo-relationship-insights-from-the-boardroom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-effective-chair-ceo-relationship-insights-from-the-boardroom https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/03/17/the-effective-chair-ceo-relationship-insights-from-the-boardroom/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:19:50 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=16468?d=20230310125020EST Posted by Stephen Davis, Millstein Center for Corporate Governance & Performance, Yale School of Management, on Thursday, March 17, 2011
Editor's Note:

Stephen M. Davis is the Executive Director of Yale University School of Management’s Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance. This post discusses a report from the Millstein Center by Elise Walton, available here.

The number of U.S. companies that separate the chairman and CEO roles is at a historic high: 40 percent of the S&P 500 now separate the roles, up from 23 percent a decade ago, according to Spencer Stuart. A new report published by Yale’s Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, The Effective Chair-CEO Relationship: Insight From the Boardroom, examines how this increasingly common relationship works. Based on interviews with CEOs, non-executive Chairs, and stakeholders, the report aims to understand what constitutes a winning relationship between two individuals, each successful in his or her own right. As this leadership structure becomes more prevalent, these insights should be useful to those working together in these interdependent roles.

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