Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The answer to this question is central to a proper assessment of many trade and industrial policies. In this paper, we explore this question by examining how predictable changes in...

One of the fastest-growing areas of finance research is the study of managerial biases and their implications for firm outcomes. Since the mid-2000s, this strand of behavioral corporate finance has provided theoretical and empirical evidence on the influence of biases in the corporate realm,...

The analyses below compare the career histories and personal characteristics of the executives in the top ranks of the world's largest and most stable business operations, the Fortune 100, between 1980 and 2001. To our knowledge, there have been no prior studies of contemporary changes in the...

This paper examines the labor market for mutual fund managers and managers' responses to the implicit incentives created by their career concerns. We find that managerial turnover is sensitie to a fund's recent performance. Consistent with the hypothesis that fund companies are learning about...

The best worker is not always the best candidate for manager. In these cases, do firms promote the best potential manager or the best worker in her current job? Using microdata on the performance of sales workers at 214 firms, we find evidence consistent with the "Peter Principle," which...

We show that economic conditions when managers enter the labor market have long-run effects on their career paths and managerial styles. Managers who began their careers during recessions become CEOs more quickly, but at smaller firms. They also have more conservative styles, such as lower...

Anhand spannender Geschichten aus dem Unternehmensalltag lernen Sie etwas über Kommunikation, Führung und Zusammenarbeit: Georg Schwinning, erfahrener Manager und Coach, nutzt Storytelling, um mit Sachverstand und Humor Kommunikationsprobleme im Job zu lösen. Viele Probleme mit Kollegen und...

Die internationale Superelite, die die Fäden zieht und von den Großkonzernen aus die Welt regiert, gibt es nicht. Michael Hartmann entzaubert einen Mythos: Der Elitenforscher hat sich die 1000 größten Unternehmen der Welt über 20 Jahre hinweg angesehen, ebenso wie die weltweit 1000...