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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456270
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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/10003994168
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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...
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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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How Do CEOs Make Strategy?
Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2020
We explore the critical question of how executives make strategic decisions. Utilizing a new survey of 262 CEO alumni of Harvard Business School, we gather evidence on four aspects of each executive's business strategy: its overall structure, its formalization, its development, and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482172
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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality : Evidence from Public Hospitals
Bloom, Nicholas - 2010
In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as … a greater number of neighboring hospitals) is positively correlated with increased management quality, and this …
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