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The $1 Trillion Problem

What poor succession is actually costing the market.

Harvard Business Review puts the annual cost of poor succession planning to S&P 1500 companies at one trillion dollars. Not a soft estimate — the measured gap in market cap between companies that prepare successors and those that don't.

$1T

Annual cost of poor succession planning to S&P 1500 companies

$1.8B

Average shareholder value lost when a board scrambles without a groomed successor

54%

Of S&P 1500 boards groom a specific CEO successor. The rest absorb the cost by default.

If your top leader resigned tomorrow,

who walks into the room on Monday?

The $1 Trillion Problem

What poor succession is actually costing the market.

$1T

$1.8B

54%

If your top leader resigned tomorrow,

who walks into the room on Monday?

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Research on leadership succession

The $1 Trillion Problem

What poor succession is actually costing the market.

$1T

$1.8B

54%

If your top leader resigned tomorrow,

who walks into the room on Monday?

THE LIBRARY

Research on leadership succession

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