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 front was an effective strategy in reducing desertion rates, and …The US Civil War provides researchers a unique opportunity to identify wartime leaders and thus to test theories of …

A theory of leadership is proposed and tested. Leaders are characterized as those who have the ability to choose the … right direction more frequently than their peers. The theory implies that leaders tend to be more able, place themselves in … visible decision making situations more frequently, and are generalists. Also, the most able leaders should be found in the …

communicates the future course of action of the organization. In practice, leaders learn about the best course of action for the … of the mission statement. But resolute leaders also inhibit communication with followers and leader resoluteness is …

the role of social interactions with local female leaders for sustaining program impacts. The social interactions are … identified through the randomized assignment of leaders and other beneficiaries to different cash transfer packages. Random … exposure to leaders that received the largest package was found to augment short-term program impacts on households …

formalize this cognitive bias in a simple model of distorted Bayesian updating. We then examine strategy changes made by … professional football coaches. We find they are more likely to revise their strategy after a loss than a win -- even for narrow … expected, and the offensive strategy is revised even when failure is attributable to the defense. These results are consistent …

strategy are common across the two models: In particular, highly inertial interest rate rules that respond to nominal income or …