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diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical diversity (i.e., team to faculty advisor) and their effect on performance … course was run in multiple cohorts in otherwise identical formats except for the team formation mechanism used. In several … exogenous to the gender make-up of the entrepreneurial team, the positive performance effects can be interpreted as causal …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...
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require greater risk-taking than more incremental approaches. To understand how managers respond to uncertainty when making … projects. The results suggest that the risk preferences of managers in charge of research investments may have an oversized …
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We find that a firm's tendency to engage in financial misconduct increases with the misconduct rates of neighboring firms. This appears to be caused by peer effects, rather than exogenous shocks like regional variation in enforcement. Effects are stronger among firms of comparable size, and...
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large misperceptions among the employees about the salaries of their managers and smaller but still significant … employees' own behavior. When they find out that their managers earn more than they thought, employees work harder on average …
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One of the continuing areas of controversy surrounding higher education is affirmative action. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Fisher v. Texas, and their ruling may well influence universities' diversity initiatives, especially if they overturn Grutter v. Bollinger and rule that diversity...
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