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All in the Family? CEO Choice and Firm Organization, by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, is the first study showing a causal link between dynastic family firms and poorer ... Read more...
01 March 2018
CEO pay is quickly outpacing gyours. In 2016, the CEOs of the top 350 U.S. firms earned on average $15.6 million. “There are CEOs getting paid hundreds of millions,” Stanford economics profes... Read more...
22 January 2018
The most successful companies are run by CEOs who have one “critically important” trait in common: They pay attention to detail. “They’re unbelievably detail-oriented,” says... Read more...
19 January 2018
College leaders' effectiveness 'seems unrelated to their salary', according to the Centre for Vocational Education Research. Better principals make a positive difference to their student’s ed... Read more...
19 December 2017
New research from Harvard Business Review looks at data from over 1,000 chief executives and the financial performance of their companies to explore what makes CEOs tick. The report was authored by Oriana... Read more...
21 November 2017
A group of professors from Harvard Business School, the London School of Economics, Columbia University, and the University of Oxford pondered the same question and conducted a survey of more than 1,000 CEOs i... Read more...
30 October 2017
… the share price of companies did worse than the company's ceo who actually paid less than average so if anything what you see now is actually pay for underperformance that us companies and there&#... Read more...
06 October 2017
A study published in 2011 examined CEOs in the top-100 best hospitals in USNWR in three key medical specialties: cancer, digestive disorders, and cardiovascular care. A simple question was asked: are hospitals... Read more...
27 December 2016
By Brian Bell, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, and John Van Reenen Director of the Centre for Economic Performance and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Originally published at VoxEU... Read more...
08 August 2016
Article by Brian Bell and John Van Reenen Lacklustre growth seems to be the new normal almost everywhere in the world except for one area - CEO pay. This column uses data on UK publicly listed firms to examine whether ... Read more...
05 August 2016
That time difference adds 2.6 percent extra productivity for the professionals, finds an LSE-Columbia-Harvard team. An emerging body of evidence indicates that family management may actually be detrimental for performan... Read more...
14 September 2015
Corporate greed isn't good, but it might not be as bad for inequality as we thought - or at least not in the way we thought. Now it seems pretty obvious that inequality must have something to do with executive pay. After... Read more...
29 May 2015
Publicly traded companies are the engine behind China's growth, which raises the question of how CEO compensation works under an interventionist state. This column presents an analysis of executive compensation in China ... Read more...
24 June 2014
Com'è la giornata tipo di un manager nel mondo? Quante ore lavora e cosa fa in quelle ore? Uno studio su amministratori delegati europei, americani, indiani e brasiliani condotto da Raffaella Sadun (che insegna Bu... Read more...
03 June 2014