Based on two samples of high quality personality data for chief executive officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness,...

Using a dataset of 2,603 executive assessments with thirty individual characteristics, we identify who becomes a CEO candidate and how CEO candidates differ from candidates for other top- management positions, notably CFOs. The variation in characteristics is explained by four factors that we...

Most research on the CEO labor market has studied public company CEOs while largely ignoring the market for CEOs in private equity funded companies. We fill this gap by studying the market for CEOs among larger U.S. companies (enterprise value greater than $1 billion) purchased by private equity...