promoted management training trips for European managers at US firms. Through the analysis of reports compiled by UK, France …, Germany, and Italian participating firms, I first document that these companies claimed between 5 and 10% yearly productivity …

performance in the largest companies in Germany in the 1980s. The management board turns over slowly -- at a rate of 10% per year … -- implying that top executives in Germany have longer tenures than their counterparts in the U.S. and Japan. Turnover of the …

learning algorithm. The algorithm uncovers two distinct behavioral types: "leaders" and "managers". Leaders focus on multi …-function, high-level meetings, while managers focus on one-to-one meetings with core functions. Firms with leader CEOs are on average …

This paper replicates a classic study of the American business elite. The older study done a half-century ago, reported … the composition of the" American business elite has changed. As in the earlier study, the business elite is compared to a …" sample of political leaders. I find that democratization of the business elite has progressed only" slightly in the past …

This paper asks whether elite colleges help students outside of historically advantaged groups reach top positions in … discontinuity design based on admissions rules at elite business-focused degree programs in Chile. The 1.8% of college students …

This paper begins the task of explaining why the American business elite has remained white, male and mostly native … that this demographic group makes the best business managers. I suggest that this in turn is not because they are …