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Leadership and organizational change advisor. Thirty years advising senior executives through transformation, restructuring and leadership transition at Fortune 50 organizations.
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Leadership and organizational change advisor. Thirty years advising senior executives through transformation, restructuring and leadership transition at Fortune 50 organizations.
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Stanford GSB: Senior Executive Succession and Talent Development
Stanford GSB study reveals critical shortfalls in CEO succession planning, with only 46% of companies having formal successor development processes and just 25% confident in their CEO candidate pools. The research highlights that most corporate leaders underestimate the complexity of succession planning and lack systematic strategies to identify and groom future executives.
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Summary
Stanford GSB study reveals critical shortfalls in CEO succession planning, with only 46% of companies having formal successor development processes and just 25% confident in their CEO candidate pools. The research highlights that most corporate leaders underestimate the complexity of succession planning and lack systematic strategies to identify and groom future executives.
Tags
ceo-succession · talent-development · corporate-governance · executive-planning · leadership-pipeline · organizational-risk
Key entities
David F. Larcker (person, 0.95) · Scott Saslow (person, 0.95) · Stanford Graduate School of Business (organization, 0.95) · Rock Center for Corporate Governance (organization, 0.95) · Institute of Executive Development (organization, 0.95) · Ford (organization, 0.9) · Proctor & Gamble (organization, 0.9) · Cisco Systems (organization, 0.9) · succession-planning (concept, 0.98) · executive-development (concept, 0.98) · corporate-governance (concept, 0.95) · Stanford University (location, 0.95) · CEO succession study (event, 0.9)
Classification
analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 30 Sep 2026