Internal vs. External CEO Choice and the Structure of Compensation Contracts
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Frédéric Palomino of the Department of Economics at EDHEC Business School and Eloïc-Anil Peyrache of the Department of Economics and Decision Sciences...
View ArticleExecutive Turnover Following Option Backdating Allegations
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Ed Swanson, Professor and Durst Chair at the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University; Jap Efendi of the Department of Accounting at The...
View ArticleHow Costly Is Corporate Bankruptcy for Top Executives?
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from B. Espen Eckbo, Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College; Karin Thorburn, Professor of Finance at the Norwegian School...
View ArticleEx-Ante Severance Pay Contracts and Optimal Executive Incentive Schemes
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from P. Raghavendra Rau, Professor of Finance at the University of Cambridge, and Jin Xu of the Finance Area at Purdue University. In recent years, large...
View ArticleStatistics on CEO Succession in the S&P 500
Editor's Note: Matteo Tonello is Managing Director at The Conference Board, Inc. This post relates to a Conference Board report led by Dr. Tonello, Jason D Schloetzer of Georgetown University, and...
View ArticleEvidence of CEO Adaptability to Industry Shocks
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Wayne Guay, Daniel Taylor, and Jason Xiao, all of the Department of Accounting at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior turnover literature documents...
View ArticleEvidence on the Properties of Retiring CEOs’ Forecasts of Future Earnings
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Cory Cassell of the Department of Accounting at the University of Arkansas, Shawn Huang of the School of Accountancy at Arizona State University, and...
View ArticleThe Landscape of CEO Succession Issues
Editor's Note: Brian V. Breheny is a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. The following post is based on a Skadden memorandum by Mr. Breheny, Regina Olshan, Neil M. Leff, Marc S....
View ArticleCommunication Practices in CEO Succession
Editor's Note: Matteo Tonello is managing director at The Conference Board. This post relates to an issue of The Conference Board’s Chart of the Week series authored by Dr. Tonello. A review of the CEO...
View ArticleExecutive Pay Disparity and the Cost of Equity Capital
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Zhihong Chen of the Department of Accountancy at City University of Hong Kong, Yuan Huang of the School of Accounting and Finance at Hong Kong...
View ArticleDoes the Market for CEO Talent Explain Controversial CEO Pay Practices?
Editor's Note: Martijn Cremers is a Professor of Finance at the University of Notre Dame. Yaniv Grinstein is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell...
View ArticleDelaware Court Upholds CEO Removal and Determines Board Composition
Editor's Note: Allen M. Terrell, Jr. is a director at Richards, Layton & Finger. This post is based on a Richards, Layton & Finger publication, and is part of the Delaware law series, which is...
View ArticleCEO Job Security and Risk-Taking
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Peter Cziraki of the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto and Moqi Xu of the Department of Finance at the London School of Economics....
View ArticleExcess Risk Taking and Competition for Managerial Talent
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Viral Acharya, Professor of Finance at NYU; Marco Pagano, Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Naples Federico II; and Paolo Volpin,...
View ArticleCEO Succession in the S&P 500: Statistics and Case Studies
Editor's Note: Matteo Tonello is Managing Director at The Conference Board, Inc. This post relates to CEO Succession Practices: 2014 Edition, a Conference Board report authored by Dr. Tonello, Jason D....
View ArticleBoard Challenges: The Question of CEO Succession
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Wayne Lord, president of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta. This post is based on a white paper report from the 2013 Global Strategic Leadership...
View ArticleThe Executive Turnover Risk Premium
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Florian Peters, Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Amsterdam and Alexander Wagner, Professor of Finance at the University of Zurich....
View ArticleUnderstanding Corporate Governance Through Learning Models of Managerial...
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Benjamin Hermalin, Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley; and Michael Weisbach, Professor of Finance at Ohio State...
View ArticleWhen Executives Fail: Managing Performance on the CEO’s Team
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Mark Nadler, Principal and co-founder of Nadler Advisory Services, and is based on a Nadler white paper. Picture, if you will, the chief executive...
View ArticleNew Statistics and Cases of CEO Succession in the S&P 500
Editor's Note: Matteo Tonello is Managing Director at The Conference Board, Inc. This post relates to CEO Succession Practices: 2015 Edition, a Conference Board report supported by a research grant...
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