Psychology research identifies extraversion as the personality trait most closely associated with leadership emergence. We examine executive extraversion, as measured by speech patterns during conference calls, and find extraverts experience significant career benefits. Controlling for executive...

We examine the relationship of financial expert CEO on firm innovation. Using CEO individual level and firm-level data across Chinese A-share market from 2008 to 2015, the Poisson model estimation shows that the financial expert CEO has significant negative impact on firm innovation. A financial...

We exploit a unique feature of conference calls to study one type of interaction among executives — directly inviting colleagues to respond to analysts’ questions. We find that the frequency of initiating interaction is positively associated with an executive’s ability, but not associated...