Governance & Leadership

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When It Comes to the Family Business, Generational Mentorship Builds Stronger CEOs

When a departing family CEO actively mentors a younger family leader, that leader is more likely to keep the business financially successful, especially if non-family advisors also weigh in.

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Can Immigrant CEOs Help Reduce Corporate Irresponsibility in Their Home Countries?

When companies engage in harmful actions like polluting the environment or violating human rights, it’s known as corporate social irresponsibility (CSI). Such CSI incidents tend to happen more frequently in certain regions or countries as compared to others.

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Pay Transparency Doesn’t Lower Productivity—But Individual Responses Illuminate Workers’ Sense of What’s Fair

When companies go public with salary information, the average productivity of their employees does not decline. But small shifts in work output are highly individualized, and they may reflect workers’ responses to how closely they feel their efforts align with the pay.

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Resilient Entrepreneurs Experience Challenges, But the Emotional Swings Are Far and Few in Between

Entrepreneurs often experience emotional highs and lows. However, resilience—the ability to adapt and keep functioning despite setbacks—can help.

Negative stereotypes about female tech entrepreneurs hurt recruitment, but a diverse leadership team can ameliorate the issue

Men continue to dominate the technology industry, with female entrepreneurs in the field continuing to pace far behind. But how are women entrepreneurs faring with other necessary resources for their firms?

From Corporate Allies to World Cup Rivals? How Competing External Organizations Hinder Employee Collaboration

For managers, the findings suggest that employees outside affiliations with competing organizations can pose challenges to collaboration. By understanding and managing these dynamics, managers can help employees work together more effectively and maintain strong internal collaboration.

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Looking to improve CEO accountability? Think about hiring military directors

Military service has a lasting impact on individuals’ values and beliefs, significantly shaping how they view conditions like accountability…As it turns out, those ingrained values may be exactly what makes military directors ideal board members — particularly when it comes to holding executives accountable for poor firm performance.

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Thinking of lobbying to cut costs of recalls? First, take cues from the media

Recalls can be costly — a conservative estimate suggests a recall can cost about $12 million. One way to limit the negative consequences is to engage in lobbying to lower the penalties, but it begs a greater question: how much should firm managers pay attention to media scrutiny in their decision to lobby?

Overconfident CEOs are more apt to pursue breakthrough innovations — but boards with expertise and power are necessary for project success

When both board power and expertise were present alongside an overconfident CEO, the results were remarkable…

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