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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 … corporate-wide coordination by functional managers in headquarters. We find that the number of functional managers closer to the …
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managers improves the efficiency of the transmission of knowledge across countries. The model further delivers the prediction …
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Are CEOs' attitudes and beliefs linked to their fims' innovative performance? This paper uses Malmendier and Tate's measure of overconfidence, based on CEO stock-option exercise, to study the relationship between a CEO's "revealed beliefs" about future performance and standard measures of...
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Lawyers now serve as executives in 44% of corporations. Although endowed with gatekeeping responsibilities, executive lawyers face increasing pressure to use time on strategic efforts. In a lawyer fixed effects model, we quantify that lawyers are half as important as CEOs in explaining variances...
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of Harvard Business School, we gather evidence on four aspects of each executive’s business strategy: its overall …, while others rely heavily on instinct and intuition. Second, more structured strategy processes are associated with larger … of Harvard Business School’s required strategy course, we trace differences in strategic decision making back to …
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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 …
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We study the role of firm- and manager-specific heterogeneities in executive compensation. We decompose the variation in executive compensation and find that time invariant firm and especially manager fixed effects explain a majority of the variation in executive pay. We then show that in many...
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manipulate the size and leadership structure of monetary policy decisionmaking. We find no evidence of superior performance by …
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large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line managers, we find that several key dimensions of managerial quality …
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-family firms display a more textbook approach of shareholder-value-maximization. Finally, we find a continuum of leadership …
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