Dennis Carey's Publications & Quotations
BOOKS
| Title | Author | Year | |
| Talent Strategy Risk | Harvard Business Review Press | Carey, Charan & McNabb | 2021 |
| Go Long: Why Long-Term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy | Wharton Digital Press | Carel, Useem, Zemmel & Dumaine | 2018 |
| Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First | Harvard Business Review Press | Carey, Charan, Barton | 2018 |
| Boards That Lead - When to Take Charge, When to Partner & When to Stay Out of the Way |
Harvard Business Review Press |
Dennis Carey, Ram Charan & Mike Useem |
2014 |
| The Human Side of M&A |
Oxford University Press |
Carey, Ogden & Roland |
2004 |
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How to Run a Company |
Crown Business |
Carey, V Weichs |
2003 |
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CEO Succession |
Oxford University Press |
Carey, Ogden & Roland |
2000 |
BOOK CITATIONS & CHAPTERS
| Title | Author | Year | |
| Talent Management Handbook | McGraw-Hill | Berger (Carey, Feigen & Cashman) | 2010 |
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Owning Up |
Jossey-Bass |
Charan (Carey Citation) |
2009 |
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The Leader of the Future 2 |
Jossey-Bass |
Hesselbein & Goldsmith (Blanchard & Carey) |
2006 |
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Talent Management Handbook |
McGraw-Hill |
Berger (Carey & Ogden) |
2003 |
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Mergers & Acquisitions |
Harvard Business Review |
(Carey, Aiello, Watkins, et. al.) |
2001 |
OP-ED PIECES
| Title | Author | Year | |
| How Companies Can Avoid CEO Hiring Failure |
Fortune.com |
Carey, Kusin & Stevenson |
2012 |
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Don't Force Firms to Split CEO and Chair |
Wall Street Journal |
Carey |
2009 |
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Strategy Should Start in the Boardroom |
Financial Times |
Carey & Patsalos-Fox |
2006 |
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A Match Made in Heaven |
Wall Street Journal |
Carey & Ogden |
1998 |
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Have Spinoffs Spun Out of Control |
New York Times |
Carey & Saul |
1996 |
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
| Executive Talent Magazine | Author | Year |
| GO LONG: Why Long-Term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy | Carey, Useem, Zemmel & Dumaine |
2019 |
| Harvard Business Review | Author | Year |
| The CEO’s Playbook for a Successful Digital Transformation | Dennis Carey, Ram Charan, Eric Lamarre, Kate Smaje, and Rodney Zemmel |
2021 |
| Engaging with Your Investors | Carey, Charan & McNabb |
2021 |
| The Changing Role of the Investor Relations Officer | Carey, Charan & McNabb |
2021 |
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Boards Are Overlooking Qualified Women. Here’s How to Fix That |
Carey & Charan |
2019 |
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How Successful CEOs Manage their Middle Act |
Carey, Zemmel & Cuddihy |
2018 |
| How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring | Carey, Charan & Barton | 2018 |
| One Bank's Agile Team Experiment | Carey, Charan & Barton | 2018 |
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How Companies Are Using Simulations, Competitions, and Analytics to Hire |
Carey & Smith |
April 2016 |
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People Before Strategy: A New Role for the CHRO |
Charan, Barton & Carey |
July 2015 |
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Your Board Should Think Like Activists |
Charan, Carey & Useem |
February 2015 |
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How Boards Can Innovate (Blog) |
Charan, Carey & Useem |
May 2014 |
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If the Board Monitors the Company, Who Monitors the Board? (Blog) |
Charan, Carey & Useem |
April 2014 |
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How Microsoft Avoided the Peter Principle with Nadella (Blog) |
Carey & Useem |
February 2014 |
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An Activist Investor Lands in Your Boardroom – Now What? (Blog) |
Carey & Useem |
January 2014 |
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Root Out Dysfunction in the Boardroom (Blog) |
Charan, Carey & Useem |
January 2014 |
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What Smart Boards Do When Investors Knock (Blog) |
Carey & Useem |
December 2013 |
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Ten Essential Tips For Hiring Your Next CEO (Blog) |
Charan, Carey & Useem |
December 2013 |
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Microsoft’s Next CEO: How the Board Can Get It Right (Blog) |
Charan, Carey & Useem |
November 2013 |
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The Audit Committee's New Agenda |
Sherman, Carey & Brust |
June 2009 |
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Picking the Right Insider for CEO Succession |
Carey, Phelan & Useem |
2009 |
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Lessons from Master Acquirers: A CEO Roundtable on Making Mergers Succeed |
Carey, et. al. |
2000 |
| MCKINSEY QUARTERLY | Author | Year |
| An agenda for the talent-first CEO | Carey, Charan & Barton |
2018 |
| How to choose the right nonexecutive board leader | Carey, Keller, Patsalos-Fox | 2010 |
| Leadership Leassons for Hard Times | Carey, Pastalos-Fox, Useem | 2009 |
| Shaping Strategy from the Boardroom | Carey & Patsalos-Fox | 2006 |
| Equity Carve-Outs: A New Spin on Corporate Structure | Anslinger, Carey, Fink & Gagnon | 1997 |
| Harvard Law School Blogs | Author | Year |
| Survey of Board Leadership 2014 - The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | August 2014 |
| Wharton | Author | Year |
| Managing Risk: A Checklist for Leaders | Dennis Carey, Ram Charan, Michael Useem, William and Jacalyn Egan | April 2014 |
| Nano Tools for Leadership | Dennis Carey, Ram Charan, Michael Useem, William and Jacalyn Egan | December 2013 |
| Strategy & Business | Author | Year |
| Politicians for Prosperity | Charan, Carey, Useem | October 2014 |
| The European Business Review | Author | Year |
| Boards that Lead | Charan, Carey, Useem | March/April 2014 |
| Briefings Magazine | Author | Year |
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Advice to Boards: Seek Returns |
Carey & Roland |
Quarter 2, 2012 |
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When Finding the Right CEO is Job #1 |
Carey & Keller |
2011 |
| KFI Institute | Author | Year |
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New Directors and New Directions at America's Most Valuable Public Companies |
Carey |
2012 |
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Board leadership at America's Most Valuable Public Companies |
Carey |
2011 |
| The Corporate Board | Author | Year |
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Best Practices for CEO Succession |
Carey |
2013 |
| Chief Executive | Author | Year |
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CEO Shift: How CEOs are Using Crisis to Pivot to a Better Future |
Carey, Charan & Remick |
2020 |
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Why Boards that Lead Succeed |
Charan, Carey, Useem |
May 2014 |
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10 Principles for Finding the Right CEO |
Charan, Carey, Useem |
May 2014 |
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CEO Succession: 10 best practices by the best companies… |
Carey |
2011 |
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Finding a New CEO |
Carey & Ogden |
2001 |
| Directorship | Author | Year |
| Ensuring Great Non-Executive Board Leadership | Carey | 2010 |
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The SEC's Bad Rx for Boards |
Carey |
2009 |
| Business Lawyer | Author | Year |
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Director Ownership, Corporate Performance, and Management Turnover |
Bhagat, Carey & Elson |
1999 |
| NACD | Author | Year |
| It’s Time to Reinvent the Compensation Committee |
Carey |
May 2018 |
QUOTATIONS & CITATIONS
| Korn Ferry | Year |
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Wall Street’s New Call for More Women Directors |
February 2018 |
| Forbes | Year |
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Why Leaders Need To Put Talent At The Center Of Corporate Strategy |
February 2018 |
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How to Foster CFO-CHRO Collaboration and Improve Your Bottom Line |
September 2017 |
| Harvard Business Review | Year |
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How the Best Board Directors Stay Involved |
February 2015 |
| Huffington Post | Year |
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One Woman In The Boardroom Isn't Enough. Here's Why. |
February 2015 |
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Bored Boards Are Bad For Business. Smart Companies Are Fixing That |
February 2015 |
| Fortune | Year |
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Why Companies That Manage for The Long Term Perform Far Better. And Why Most Still Don’t |
May 2018 |
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Activist investors’ unintentional war on women |
September 2014 |
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The case for employees to pick their CEO |
July 2014 |
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Jamie Dimon: When a CEO's health must become public knowledge |
July 2014 |
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7 executive jobs in the future C-suite |
June 2011 |
| The Boston Globe | Year |
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Was Microsoft smart to play it safe with CEO pick? |
February 2014 |
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Year |
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Chief Executive Exits, Firings On The Rise |
June 2014 |
| Financial Times | Year |
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Refreshing the Board |
January 2014 |
| Corporate Secretary | Year |
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Directors’ duty: when to lead, when to keep clear |
January 2014 |
| Agenda | Year |
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Number of Exec Chairs Grows, but Pay Drops |
October 2014 |
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A Gift or a Challenge? New Microsoft CEO to Work With Gates |
2014 |
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Facilitating Communication is No. 1 Duty of Board Leader |
August 2010 |
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The Graying of Corporate Boards |
June 2010 |
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What's Most Rewarding About Being a Director These Day? |
December 2009 |
| How Director Pay is Changing | October 2009 |
| New Board Committees Induce Boardroom Shuffle | September 2009 |
| Large Companies Overwhelmingly Choose Inside CEOs | September 2008 |
| Boards Redefine CEO's Role in Director Recruitment | August 2006 |
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Compliance - Focused Boards Stumped on Strategy |
August 2006 |
| The Economist | Year |
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Schumpeter: From cuckolds to captains |
December 2013 |
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Second Life; Wall Street's Chief Executives |
May 2009 |
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Where's all the Fun Gone? |
March 2004 |
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The Way We Govern Now - Corporate Boards |
January 2003 |
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CEO Agenda: Boardrooms are at Last Being Shaken Up |
January 2003 |
| Businessweek | Year | |
| Hewlett-Packard Announces Board of Directors Shake-Up | February 2011 | |
| Top Managers Are Quitting, Without a New Job | November 2009 | |
| Bank Bonuses Spark Talent War | October 2009 | |
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Breeding Grounds for New CEO's |
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April 2009 |
| Solving Tyco's Identity Crisis | February 2009 | |
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Managing Through A Crisis: The New Rules |
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January 2009 |
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Most Influencial Headhunters |
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January 2008 |
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Who's on Board at Tyco |
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January 2007 |
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Going Private; Hotshot Managers are Fleeing Public Companies for the Money, Freedom & Glamour of Private Equity |
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February 2006 |
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Talent Goes by the Board |
Business Week Online |
July 2005 |
| The Washington Post | Year | |
| Mary Barra: The rare CEO who worked in human resources | The Washington Post | January 2014 |
| Microsoft Says New CEO Won’t be Named Until Early 2014 | The Washington Post | December 2013 |
| Bloomberg | Year |
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IBM: A New CEO for Its 100th Birthday |
June 2011 |
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Hewlett-Packard Announces Board of Directors Shake-Up |
January 2011 |
| The Associated Press | Year |
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Sequels to Iconic CEOs Rarely as Good as Original |
January 2009 |
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Icahn's Big Bet on Yahoo Hinges on Microsoft Sale |
June 2008 |
| CNN | Year |
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CEOs lash out at WorldCom with Dennis Carey |
June 2002 |
| Directors & Boards | Year |
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A Strengthening Nexus: Boards and the CHRO |
4th Quarter 2009 |
| NACD Directorship | Year |
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View From A Departing CEO |
June 2011 |
| The Times Of India | Year |
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Top 2 Contenders for IBM CEO Job |
June 2011 |
| Investor's Business Daily | Year |
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The Art of Handling Sick Chief Executive Boards |
September 2008 |
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Today's CEO: More Listening, Less Talking |
May 2005 |
| New York Times | Year |
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Korn Ferry Vice Chairman Dennis Carey Co-Authors “Go Long: Why Long-Term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy” |
May 2018 |
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Spitz Lends His Prestige to Swim Hall |
May 2005 |
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U.S. Chief Executives Fare Well in Job Security, Survey Finds |
May 2005 |
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USA Today |
Year |
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Weissmuller Medals Back in Swimming Hall of Fame |
September 2005 |
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CEOs of the Future get Formal Training to Take Giant Leap |
December 2003 |
| Corporate Board Member Magazine | Year |
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The Essence of a Great Director - Carey, Charan & McNabb
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2021 |
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The Compensation Committee Takes its Turn |
October 2008 |
| Marketwatch | Year |
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Why CEO Second Acts may Deserve an Encore |
January 2008 |
| Chief Executive | Year |
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Succession in the Valley |
June 2005 |
| D & O Advisor | Year |
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The View from the Outside; Do Independent Directors Matter |
March 2004 |
| SHRM EXECUTIVE NETWORK | Year |
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Selecting a High-Performance CEO - Charan, Carey & McNabb |
2021 |
TV & RADIO APPEARANCES
| Wharton Business Radio | SiriusXM | July 2021 |
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Four Lessons for Fintech (and all) Boards |
Alex Lazarow | July 2021 |
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Why even CEOs need to ask for help: How Alan Mullaly turned Ford around |
Big Think YouTube |
April 2018 |
| NASDAQ - Speed Read - Talent Wins | NASDAQ Facebook Live | March 2018 |
| In The Workplace - Talent Wins | Sirius XM - Wharton Business Radio | February 2018 |
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Total Picture Radio Podcast – Boards That Lead |
TotalPicture Radio |
January 2014 |
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Money For Breakfast - Microsoft/Yahoo Negotiations |
Fox Business Network |
January 2009 |
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Lou Dobbs MoneyLine - CEO Academy |
CNN |
February 2002 |