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 …

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 …

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 …

to forgo the potentially valuable private information of their managers. We study the introduction of job testing across … 15 firms employing low-skilled service sector workers. When faced with similar applicant pools, we find that managers who … appear to hire against test recommendations end up with worse average hires. This suggests that managers often overrule test …