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The 2012 Chief Executive Study
This is the thirteenth year that Booz & Company has examined CEO successions and success among the world’s top 2,500 public companies. This year we focused particularly on the professional and educational backgrounds of new CEOs and on how CEOs should lead through disruption.

In 2012, 15.0 percent of CEOs left office, up from 14.2 percent in 2011. This is the second-highest rate of CEO successions in the history of our study. And the new leaders who came into the office were, for the most part, familiar faces.

Every company will face fundamental disruption sooner or later. Our feature article in strategy+business explains how chief executives must engage personally at every stage of planning and response to make sure their company does better than others.

The 2012 Chief Executive Study Overview Video

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Interactive Graphic: 13 Years of CEO Succession Data

The 2013 State of the European Union Survey
Business leaders are more pessimistic and more urgently demanding change—but, despite this, remain optimistic about the EU’s long-term prospects. This is a core message of the survey produced by Booz & Company, INSEAD, and the European Executive Council. read more >

Capabilities-Driven Strategy
The power of coherence: A company's right to win in any market depends not just on external market positioning, and not just on internal capabilities—but on a coherent strategy that aligns them at every level. Our research has revealed three interlocking elements that make up a capabilities-driven strategy. read more >

Fit for Growth*
In an uneven business climate, companies need to transform how they operate, while creating the capacity to invest in growth. That starts by articulating a clear and compelling cost agenda, continues with the building of lean processes, systems, operations, and organization, and culminates in the institutionalization of capabilities that keep companies fit. read more >

Digitization
Thanks to digitization, companies across industries are racing to migrate "analog" approaches to customers, products, services, and operating models to an always-on, real-time, and information rich marketplace. In doing so, these companies secure not only continued relevance, but also superior returns.read more >

Consumerization
Booz & Company strongly believes that consumerism is a revolutionary force that will fundamentally alter the status quo in the health industry. We work with our clients—payors, hospitals and health systems, and life sciences companies—as they seek to understand all the implications of this new world and become leaders in the consumerization of healthcare. read more >

The Global Innovation 1000 Study
In addition to our annual analysis of R&D spending trends, the 2012 Global Innovation 1000 study focuses on the “fuzzy front end” of the innovation process: the tools, mechanisms and networks companies use to generate ideas and effectively convert them into potential future products and services. read more >

The New Functional Agenda
Rising demands on corporate functions provide functional leaders and staff with a golden opportunity. Instead of striving to be "best in class" in everything they do, they can become "fit for purpose" by focusing on activities that are strategically important to the enterprise and that help drive its distinctive value proposition.read more >

2013 Industry Perspectives
Find out how companies can plan for and address the trends specific to their industry and adapt to broader changes, such as the post-presidential-election business climate, the impact of new technologies, and the emphasis on structural and investment innovations that will drive profitability and growth. read more >

Empowering the Third Billion
Booz & Company has developed the Third Billion Index, a ranking of 128 countries based on how effectively leaders are empowering women as economic agents. The index is a composite of established data on women’s economic and social status, and uniquely focuses on women in the world of work. read more >

Culture and the Chief Executive

CEOs are stepping up to a new role, as symbolic leaders of their companies' everyday thinking and behavior. That's how they drive performance, especially at an informal level.
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Booz & Company is a leading global management consulting firm focused on serving and shaping the senior agenda of the world’s leading institutions. Drawing on the talents and insights of more than 3,000 people in 58 offices around the world, we help our clients achieve essential advantage by working with them to identify and build the differentiating capabilities they need to outperform.read more >

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Management Engineers Joins
Booz & Company: two firms with a similar heritage. find out more >

Introducing Booz Digital: Our full-service team of strategists, designers, and technologists helps companies turn ideas into transformational digital businesses. find out more >

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