Erel, Isil; Tan, Léa H.; Tan, Chenhao; Weisbach, Michael S. - 2018
Can algorithms assist firms in their decisions on nominating corporate directors? Directors predicted to do poorly by … algorithms indeed do poorly compared to a realistic pool of candidates in out-of-sample tests. Predictably bad directors are more … likely to be male, accumulate more directorships, and have larger networks than the directors the algorithm would recommend …