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What do CEOs do?
Bandiera, Oriana; Guiso, Luigi; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008932945
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Behavioral Finance in Corporate Governance - Independent Directors, Non-Executive Chairs, and the Importance of the Devil's Advocate
Morck, Randall - 2004
The Common Law, parliamentary democracy, and academia all institutionalize dissent to check undue obedience to authority; and corporate governance reformers advocate the same in boardrooms. Many corporate governance disasters could often be averted if directors asked hard questions, demanded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468049
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Do Managerial Objectives Drive Bad Acquisitions?
Morck, Randall - 1989
the announcement day return of bidding firms. The returns to bidding shareholders are lower when their firm diversifies …, when it buys a rapidly growing target , and when the performance of its managers has been poor before the acquisition …. These results are consistent with the proposition that managerial rather than shareholders' objectives drive bad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476048
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CEO Pay and the rise of Relative Performance Contracts : A Question of Governance?
Bell, Brian - 2016
responds more to increases in shareholders' return performance than to decreases. Further, this asymmetry is stronger when …
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The impact of competition on management quality : evidence from public hospitals
Bloom, Nicholas; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; Van … - 2010
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The impact of competition on management quality : evidence from public hospitals
Bloom, Nicholas; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; Van … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994673
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Managing the family firm : evidence from CEOs at work
Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010495472
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The Demand for Executive Skills
Hansen, Stephen; Ramdas, Tejas; Sadun, Raffaella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use a unique corpus of job descriptions for C-suite positions to document skills requirements in top managerial occupations across a large sample of firms. A novel algorithm maps the text of each executive search into six separate skill clusters reflecting cognitive, interpersonal, and...
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Communication within Firms : Evidence from CEO Turnovers
Impink, Stephen Michael; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper uses novel, firm-level measures derived from communications metadata before and after a CEO transition in 102 firms to study if CEO turnover impacts employees' communication flows. We find that CEO turnover leads to an initial decrease in intra-firm communication, followed by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599332
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The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector : Evidence from the English NHS
Janke, Katharina - 2019
We investigate whether top managers affect the performance of large and complex public sector organizations, using as a …
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