to moderate risk and boost long-term corporate survival. Results suggest a strong relation between gender-diverse boards … and bondholder-aligned CEO compensation components, particularly when CEOs have greater incentives to take and shift risk …

The Board of Directors' role in risk oversight has come under increased scrutiny, resulting in shareholder lawsuits …, increased regulation, and more extensive disclosure and listing requirements. While theory predicts that Board risk oversight … can benefit stakeholders by mitigating risk-related agency conflicts, critics argue that changes in Board practices in …

This paper conducts a systematic analysis of the effect of CEO tenure on risk-taking. We document an overall positive … relation between tenure and risk-taking. The results are inconsistent with viewing tenure primarily as an indicator of human … and recent theoretical work, we show that the effect of CEO tenure on risk-taking depends on the information asymmetry …

We examine the formation and evolution of corporate risk culture, i.e., the preferences towards risk and uncertainty … shared by a firm's leaders, as well as its effect on corporate policies. We document persistent commonality in risk attitudes … inside firms, which arises through the selection of leaders with similar preferences and is rooted in the founders' risk …

: • Did Uber’s early risk-seeking behavior cause larger problems down the road? • How important is CEO personality and …