bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and attract talented managers from other clubs. Indeed, most of the … literature indicates little improvement in team performance when one coach replaces another. Equally, Head Coaches may have few …

reweight teams' performance prior to the departure of a Coach so that trends in team performance prior to the departure match … spells which ended with a Coach remaining in post. Consistent with theory, Head Coach quits have little or no impact on team … performance whereas teams who fire their Head Coach experience small but statistically significant improvements in team …

This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method … someone who consistently causes their team to produce more than the sum of their parts. Good managers have roughly twice the … impact on team performance as good workers. People who nominate themselves to be in charge perform worse than managers …

The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is … team of founders). Given the stickiness of initial choices, human capital decisions at entry turn out to be a close to …

negatively associated, with high growth. A larger founding team raises the probability of high growth, while, controlling for … team size, diversity (by gender, age, race/ethnicity, or nativity) either lowers the probability or has little effect …

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 …