The practice of CEOs serving on the boards of other firms has raised concerns from investors and proxy advisory firms about the potential harm to shareholders of CEOs' own firms. I find that holding just one outside directorship benefits shareholders while holding multiple directorships results...

Using founder imprinting literature, we theorize the innovation performance of founder versus agent CEOs. While founder imprinting is a unique mechanism that is exclusively available to founder CEOs, few studies have explored this phenomenon with corporate innovation performance. Previous...