James HuntTrimester 2, 2013

Iconic Leaders – Timelines of Accomplishment

GSBS6004 – Organsiational Behaviour & Design

1976: Started Apple in a Silicon Valley garage with Steve Wozniak

1985: Jobs loses power struggle with Apple’s Board of Directors

Founds NeXT (1985), then PIXAR Animation Studios (1986)

1996: Apple’s buyout of NeXT for $ 429 million

1997: Jobs appointed Interim CEO of Apple

Nov 5 2009: Fortune magazine names Jobs CEO of the Decade

October 5 2011: “Steve Jobs was simply the greatest CEO of his generation.” Rupert Murdoch

Steve Jobs (1955 Steve Jobs (1955 –– 2011) 2011) –– Apple Co-Founder and Apple Co-Founder and CEO CEO

1989: Named Entrepreneur of the Decade

2000: Apple appoints Jobs Permanent CEO

1980s: Management Consultant at Bain & Co.

Eventually becomes Vice President.

March 1998: becomes EBay CEO, with 30 employees & $ 4 million in annual revenue.

EBay is divided up into multiple business units and modernised with state of the art web-enabled technology.

Nov. 2007: Steps down as CEO, but remains on the board until 2008.Ebay has 15,000 employees globally, and annual revenues of $ 8 billion

Meg WhitmanMeg Whitman –– EBay CEO 1998 - 2007 & HP CEO from EBay CEO 1998 - 2007 & HP CEO from

Sept.2011Sept.2011 Born August 4th 1956

Educated at Princeton, and Harvard (MBA)

1979: Brand manager at Procter & Gamble

EBay has a black and white website with courier font. The site crashes for 6 hours on Meg Whitman’s first day at the office.

EBay purchases Paypal, then Skype

Feb 2009 – Nov 2010: Runs for Governor of California – defeated by Jerry Brown (Democrat).

Jan 2011: Joins HP Board.

Sept 22: Appointed CEO of Hewlett Packard

$ 4 million Annual Revenue $ 8 billion

Ricardo Semler – Ricardo Semler – CEO of SEMCO CEO of SEMCO (Revenue growth 1980 – 2011)(Revenue growth 1980 – 2011)

1980: Youngest Harvard MBA Graduate – Age 21

1982: Appointed CEO, commenced restructuring the company

1985: Fainting spell sparks philosophical shift.

Commencement of sweeping employee empowerment initiatives

1989: Managing Without Managers - HBR

1993: Publishes Maverick

1994: HBR Article Why My Former Employees Still Work for Me

2003: The Seven Day Weekend

2013: Guest speaker on the world circuit, visiting professor at Harvard and MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and major shareholder at SEMCO

$ 4 million USD $ 212 million USD

S 240 million USD

1980 2003 2007

1979:

The News Corporation

is established

1987: Murdoch crushes British Print Unions and regains profitability of British newspapers

1993: Buys Star TV in China and establishes a satellite network

2011: Murdoch's empire includes 174 newspapers worldwide, TV stations on five continents (35 in the USA), book publishers, magazines, radio stations, sports teams and arenas, satellite television providers, movie studios, and Internet companies.

Rupert Murdoch (1931 Rupert Murdoch (1931 –– present) present) –– Newscorp CEO Newscorp CEO

2010: Forbes Ranked 13th Most Powerful Person in the World

1986: Creates Fox Broadcasting Company in the USA

1953: Murdoch aged 22, returns from Oxford upon his father’s death to become Managing Director of News Limited

Rupert Murdoch (1931 Rupert Murdoch (1931 –– present) present) –– Newscorp CEO Newscorp CEO

. . . missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler who was later found murdered.

The scandal resulted in News International closing its biggest selling paper, the News of the World, and dropping a takeover bid for satellite broadcaster BSkyB.

July, 2011

A scandal over phone hacking by Britain's biggest selling newspaper has escalated after it emerged police were investigating the News of the World who allegedly hacked the phone of . . .

1995: Ma founded China Yellowpages, China’s first internet company

1999: Founded Alibaba.com – China-based B2B marketplace site

2005: Named by Fortune as one of the 25 most powerful businesspeople in Asia

2007: Businessperson of the Year - Businessweek

2008: Nominated as one of the 30 World’s Best CEOs

2009: Time Magazine nominated Ma as one of the 100 most influential people in the world

2013: Ma as Chairman (and CEO until May 2013) of Alibaba Group – a holding company with 6 major subsidiaries.

1988: BA in English from Hangzhou Teacher’s College

Lecturer in English and International Trade at Hangzhou Dianzi University

Jack Ma – Founder, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba GroupJack Ma – Founder, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group

Jack Welch – CEO at General Electric 1981 - 2001Jack Welch – CEO at General Electric 1981 - 2001

1981: Promoted to CEO of GE

Shareholder Value speech in New York City

1985: Downsizing – GE employees reduced to 299,000 (down from 411,000 in 1980)

1995: Six Sigma quality program adopted from Motorola leads to massive revenues

1999: Fortune magazine names Welch Manager of the Century

2001: Sept. 7 Jack Welch retires from GE

GE Market Value

$ 13 billion $ 157 billion $ 280 Billion

BSc, Chem. Eng, U. Mass

MSc, PhD Univ of Illinois

Jill Barad – Jill Barad – President, CEO and Chairman at Mattel 1997 - 2000President, CEO and Chairman at Mattel 1997 - 2000

1973: BA - Queens College

1981: Joins Mattel (product manager)

1990: President, Mattel USA

1992: President and COO

1993: Barbie sales plateau

1995: Barad launches new marketing campaign for Barbie Dolls

Barbie sales generate revenue of $1.4 billion representing 35% of Mattel’s gross revenue

1997: President, CEO and Chairman at Mattel

2000: Jill Barad resigns as CEO and received $ 1.2 million annual pension as part of her $ 50 million compensation package

Carly Fiorina – Carly Fiorina – CEO and Chairman at HP 1999 - 2005CEO and Chairman at HP 1999 - 2005

1976: BA – Stanford University

1980: MBA in Marketing – University of Maryland

1989: MSc in Management – MIT Sloan School of Management

1998: Senior executive Lucent Technologies

Fortune Magazine - Most Powerful Businesswoman

1999: CEO and Chairman at HP

First woman to lead a Fortune 20 Company

2000: Initiates plans to break up HP and re-structure the company.

Compaq merger strategy announced

Carly Fiorina – Carly Fiorina – CEO and Chairman at HP 1999 - 2005CEO and Chairman at HP 1999 - 2005

2002: HP merges with rival computer company Compaq

Board member Walter Hewlett vehemently opposes Compaq merger

2003 – 2005: Walter Hewlett continues to question Fiorina’s strategic decision-making capabilities

2005: HP board forces Fiorina to resign

2010: November California Senate candidate for Republican party – Narrowly defeated by Democratic rival Barbara Boxer amidst massive media attention

Andrea Jung – CEO (1999) and Chairman (2001) at AvonAndrea Jung – CEO (1999) and Chairman (2001) at Avon

1994: Joins Avon as President of Product Marketing

1996: President of Global Marketing

1998- 9: COO at Avon

Begins planning and executing Avon’s long terms growth strategies

Nov 1999: CEO

2001: Chairman and CEO

Ranked 4th on Fortune’s list of 50 most powerful women in US business

2008: Joins Apple’s Board of Directors

2010: Avon sales have increased by 30% since 1999, and profits by 40%

1995 1999 2000 Annual Revenue 2010

$ 4.5 billion $ 5.3 billion $ 5.7 billion $ 10.86 billion

Graduates from Princeton

Magna Cum Laude

1977: BA and Dip. Ed. University of Capetown, South Africa

1986-7: Completes MBA with Distinction whilst pregnant

1990: Promoted to Head of HR at Nedcor Bank

1997: General Manager , Strategic Marketing, Commonwealth Bank, Australia

Feb 2008: Westpac CEO

May 2008: Takeover of St. George Bank

2010: Forbes 8th Most Powerful Woman in the World, ranked above the Queen and Andrea Jung

Gail Kelly Gail Kelly –– Westpac CEO: Feb 2008 Westpac CEO: Feb 2008 –– present present

1980: Joined Nedcor Bank as a Teller – Fast-tracked into accelerated management training program

2002: CEO, St. George Bank

Corporate Career:

Asea Brown Boveri (India)

Johnson & Johnson (India)

Boston Consulting Group (US)

Motorola (US)

Pepsi (US)

Ranked third on the 2008 and 2009 list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes magazine.

Fortune magazine has named Nooyi number one on its annual ranking of Most Powerful Women in business for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

INDRA NOOYI – Chairperson (since 2007) and CEO (since 2006), Pepsi.

B. Sc. (Chemistry, Physics, Maths) Madras Christian College, India.

Masters degree – Finance & Marketing, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Masters degree – Public & Private Sector Management, Yale University School of Organization and Management

2008: Named one of America’s Best Leaders by US News and World Report.

2009: Named CEO of the Year by Global Supply Chain Leaders Group

INDRA NOOYI – Chairperson (since 2007) and CEO (since 2006), Pepsi.

Nooyi is widely recognised as a highly effective leader, both within her organisation, and in the broader national and international business and political communities.

Fortune magazine has named Nooyi number one on its annual ranking of Most Powerful Women in business for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. In 2011 and 2012 Nooyi was ranked second.

The Fortune ranking criteria is four-fold: the size and importance of the woman’s business in the global economy, the health and direction of the business, the arc of the woman’s career, and social and cultural influence.

INDRA NOOYI – An influential and internationally recognised leader

Public Service Career:

• Board Member, Yale University.

• Member of the Board of Trustees of Eisenhower Fellowships, an international leadership exchange program.

• Board member of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in New York City.

• Serves as a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, International Rescue Committee, Catalyst (a human rights organisation).

• Currently serves as Chairperson of the U.S.- India Business Council.

INDRA NOOYI – Chairperson and CEO, Pepsi.

Key Leadership Strengths:

• Career focused

• A highly adept and experienced strategic thinker

• An excellent communicator

• Considered charismatic

Leadership Style:

• Hard-working

• Collegial

• Considerate

• She views employees at PepsiCo as her extended family.

Iconic CEOs – Profile evaluation

Five Perspectives for the evaluation of CEO Leadership

1. Personality (eg: Branson, Semler Vs. Fiorina, Welch)

2. Values (eg: Roddick V. Murdoch)

3. Utterances (eg: Welch’s shareholder value speech in New York V. Semler’s employee empowerment claims)

4. Behaviours (eg: Welch’s aggressive defence of GE’s alleged culpability in polluting the Hudson river V. Roddick’s strong actions on environmental issues)

5. Results (eg: share values, revenue growth V. employee commitment, innovative organisational culture)

Transformation of GE in 1980s – 1990sTransformation of GE in 1980s – 1990s

1981 1988 1990

Sold out more than 200 business units and 70 acquisitions

Delayering and downsizing

Replaced 12 of his 14 business heads

Developing leaders

Work out

Best Practices

Going Global

Boundaryless behaviors

Service business

E-Business

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