the composition of top management teams when a key member of the team (the CEO) departs. Our empirical analysis … establishes several facts that are consistent with co-worker complementarity being an important determinant of management team …

explain differences in the rate of human capital accumulation on the job. Data tracking national soccer team performance and … individual has been a member of an elite team than when he has been a member of lower level teams. The conclusion is borne out by … a rich set of complementary data on: national team performance, player-level performance, performance of foreign players …

10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper 10% of boss quality increases a team's total output by more than would … adding one worker to a nine member team. Workers assigned to better bosses are less likely to leave the firm. A separate …

show that general manager pay decreases as functional managers join the executive team suggesting a shift in activities … number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than … general managers. Using panel data on senior management positions, we explore the relationship between changes in executive …

large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line managers, we find that several key dimensions of managerial quality …

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 …

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 settings, it is important to include fixed effects to mitigate …