Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter

By Marc L. Ross. 2012

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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Behavioral Economics: Past, Present and Future (2016, background): “Of course some economists argue that this rise simply reflects the growing productivity of the CEOs ( e.g., Kaplan, Klebanov, and Sorensen 2012 but how confident should we be in this assessment?”
The cost of friendship (2016, background): “5 Although some exits via acquisitions are successful, others are clearly not, such as companies sold to another firm under distress or at a substantial loss (Gompers et al., 2008; Kaplan et al., 2012).”
Doing Good Business by Hiring Directors with Foreign Experience (2016, background): “Many studies in finance and human resource management suggest that the past experiences of directors/ CEOs significantly influence firms’ decision making (PérezGonzález 2006; Bennedsen et al. 2007; Kaplan et al. 2012; Benmelech and Frydman 2015; Bernile et al. 2016).”
Who Thinks about the Competition? Managerial Ability and Strategic Entry in US Local Telephone Markets (2011, neutral): “ 9 earlier, type 1 players assume all other players are type 0, type 2 players assume all other players are a combination of types 0 and 1, and type k players assume all other players are distributed between types 0 and k-1.”
What’s in an education? Implications of CEO education for bank performance (2016, methodology): “…duration of the effect of MBA Education, which counters arguments in Bhagat et al. (2010) that the impact of education is short-lived, and supports the actions of external and internal stakeholders in considering CEO education a measure of innate talent (Kaplan et al.,2012; Elsaid et al., 2015).”
Shaped by Booms and Busts: How the Economy Impacts CEO Careers and Management Styles (2017, neutral): “A number of recent papers have used this approach, such as Malmendier and Tate (2008), Kaplan, Klebanov, and Sorensen (2012), Graham, Harvey, and Puri (2013), and Benmelech and Frydman (2015).”
Director skill sets (2018, neutral): “Just as Kaplan et al. (2012) and Custodio et al. (2013) expand our view on relevant CEO types, our study suggests that there are different board “types”.”
Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship (2013, background): “Our results complement Kaplan et al. (2012) by pointing out that individuals, or more precisely individual traits, do seem important to understand the inception and growth of very young firms.”