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. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:20:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.10 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png The 2011 CEO Succession Report – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 The 2011 CEO Succession Report https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/08/10/the-2011-ceo-succession-report/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-2011-ceo-succession-report https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/08/10/the-2011-ceo-succession-report/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:10:35 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=19879?d=20150113161150EST Posted by Matteo Tonello, The Conference Board, on Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Editor's Note:

Matteo Tonello is Director of Corporate Governance for The Conference Board, Inc. This post is based on a Conference Board report by Mr. Tonello and Jason Schloetzer of Georgetown University.

In our study, The 2011 CEO Succession Report, which The Conference Board recently released, we document 2009-2010 succession events regarding the chief executive officer of S&P 500 companies and analyze those events in the historical context of the last two decades.

The report is organized in four parts.

Part I: CEO Succession Trends illustrates year-by-year succession rates and examines specific aspects of the succession phenomenon, including the influence on firm performance on succession and the characteristics of the departing and incoming CEOs.

Part II: CEO Succession Practices details where boards assign responsibilities on leadership development, the role performed within the board by the retired CEO, and the extent of the disclosure to shareholders on these matters.

Part III: Notable Cases of CEO Succession (2009-2010) includes summaries of 10 episodes of CEO succession that made headlines in the past two years and that were carefully chosen to highlight key circumstances of the process.

Part IV: Shareholder Activism on CEO Succession Planning (2010-2011) reviews examples of companies that have recently faced shareholder pressure in this area.

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