Idea posted: January 2016

Institutions: ESMT European School of Management and Technology   

The digital age creates a wide range of new opportunities for innovation. Examples include new marketing outlets through social media; ‘big data’ information on customers and the market; mobile devices…

Idea posted: December 2015

Institutions: IE Business School    Neoma Business School   

Should a board hire a former or current CEO from another company to become the new CEO? In the past, companies tended to promote new CEOs from within, ensuring that…

Idea posted: November 2015

Institutions: University of Miami School of Business Administration    China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)   

Parents will naturally have an impact on their children’s values. New research, however, is showing that the opposite is also true: children, and in particular daughters, are impacting their parents’…

Idea posted: October 2015

Institutions: Singapore Management University    University of Oregon Charles Lundquist College of Business    University of Cambridge Judge Business School   

Previous research has explored the impact of life and career experiences and circumstances on CEO managerial styles. This past research shows a monotonic or unidirectional effect of a CEO’s life…

Idea posted: August 2015

Institutions: University of Amsterdam    Frankfurt School of Finance & Management   

Theoretically, deferred compensation should keep executives from leaving the firm. One way to defer compensation is through unvested equity pay. After four or five years, the pay is vested. This…

Idea posted: July 2015

Institutions: Warwick University Business School    Saïd Business School, University of Oxford   

CEOs are responsible for knowing what is going on in their companies. No matter how large, complex or global the organization, CEOs do not have the luxury of pleading ignorance;…

Idea posted: July 2015

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business   

A new survey from Stanford University’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance on how investors use information from corporate proxy statements reveals deep dissatisfaction with corporate disclosure about executive compensation. The…

Idea posted: June 2015

Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business   

The Stanford Graduate School of Business surveyed 924 directors of nonprofit organizations. Conducted in collaboration with BoardSource and GuideStar, the surveyed covered areas such as the engagement of directors, their…

Idea posted: June 2015

Institutions: Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University   

Corporate board of directors are composed of executives (CEOs and CFOs) and non-executives. In the U.S. and the UK, the executives and non-executives are grouped on one board. In Europe,…