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A Corporate Beauty Contest
Graham, John R. - 2010
that executive compensation is linked to these perceived "competence" ratings. Our analysis explores these findings in more …-facedness" of the CEO. That is, more mature looking CEOs are assigned higher "competence" scores. This finding is potentially …. Essentially, the "look" of competence says very little about effective competence …
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Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019
large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line managers, we find that several key dimensions of managerial quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479801
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The Effect of Managers on Systematic Risk
Schoar, Antoinette - 2020
Tracking the movement of top managers across firms, we document the importance of manager-specific fixed effects in … managers' corporate strategies, such as their preferences for internal growth and financial conservatism. Managers' early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481342
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Leadership in Groups : A Monetary Policy Experiment
Blinder, Alan S. - 2007
In an earlier paper (Blinder and Morgan, 2005), we created an experimental apparatus in which Princeton University students acted as ersatz central bankers, making monetary policy decisions both as individuals and in groups. In this study, we manipulate the size and leadership structure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465259
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Centers of Gravity : The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution
Agarwal, Rajshree - 2018
We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452978
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How do CEOs see their Role? Management Philosophy and Styles in Family and Non-Family Firms
Mullins, William - 2013
Using a survey of 800 CEOs in 22 emerging economies we show that CEOs' management styles and philosophy vary with the control rights and involvement of the owning family and founder: CEOs of firms with greater family involvement have more hierarchical management, and feel more accountable to...
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Leaders : Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War
Costa, Dora - 2011
The US Civil War provides researchers a unique opportunity to identify wartime leaders and thus to test theories of leadership. By observing both leaders and followers during the war and forty years after it, I establish that the most able became wartime leaders, that leading by example from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461276
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Managerial Attributes and Executive Compensation
Graham, John R. - 2011
We study the role of firm- and manager-specific heterogeneities in executive compensation. We decompose the variation in executive compensation and find that time invariant firm and especially manager fixed effects explain a majority of the variation in executive pay. We then show that in many...
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The Two Margin Problem in Insurance Markets
Geruso, Michael - 2019
Insurance markets often feature consumer sorting along both an extensive margin (whether to buy) and an intensive margin (which plan to buy). We present a new graphical theoretical framework that extends the workhorse model to incorporate both selection margins simultaneously. A key insight from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480233
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The Efficacy of Parochial Politics : Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments
Munshi, Kaivan - 2008
with superior observed characteristics and with greater public good provision. This improvement in leadership competence …
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