Who Gets Promoted to the C-Suite—and How That Has Changed Over the Decades
Among our findings: The average age of top executives started falling after 1980. But now it’s higher than it was 40 years ago.
Among our findings: The average age of top executives started falling after 1980. But now it’s higher than it was 40 years ago.
Here’s the face of the new C-suite: older, with broader industry experience and increasingly female.
These are some of the most surprising findings my colleagues and I have uncovered about how C-suite leaders have changed over time. My co-researchers—Rocio Bonet and Monika Hamori—and I have been tracking the attributes of the leaders of the world’s biggest corporations, the Fortune 100, since 1980, when many of the key forces shaping business today began.
The findings, in some cases, seem to be at odds with each other. That is because many factors are pulling the business world in different directions. For instance, executives change jobs a lot more than in the past and don’t stick with one employer or industry for their entire careers. On the other hand, C-suite executives do less job hopping later in their careers after moving around a lot early on. In many ways, there is more stability in the corporate world now than we would ever imagine from the tales of intrigue within individual executive suites.
Here is a closer look at our key findings
Peter Cappelli is a professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of “Our Least Important Asset: Why the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting is Bad for Business and Employees.”
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