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How poorly-educated CEOs are sometimes evaluated less strictly?

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021
By examining an under-researched group, CEOs who do not have a bachelor’s degree, we develop two new theoretical constructs ? expectation mismatch and mismatch elasticity ?
Xiaoou Bai, Wei Xia, Eric WK Tsang
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CEO-CFO Educational Ties and Mergers and Acquisitions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
This paper analyzes the social connections between a firm’s chief executive officer (CEO) and its chief financial officer (CFO). We focus on French educational networks and examine the corporate governance and performance of firms whose CEO and CFO attended the same elite college (Grande ecole).
Francois Belot, Timothée Waxin
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CEO long-term orientation and elite university education

Strategic Organization, 2019
Scholars have advocated the importance of a long-term orientation to the sustainable management of organizations, but few have examined its sources. We develop more fully the concept of long-term orientation, and from the perspective of upper echelons theory, argue and demonstrate that a CEO’s human capital and motivation, as signaled by graduation ...
Danny Miller, Xiaowei Xu
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CEO Education and its Contribution to Capital Structure

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
This paper examines the relationship between individual characteristics of management, specifically the formal education of the CEO, and the CEO’s capital structure choices. It is hypothesized that a formal post-secondary education contributes to a CEO’s choice of debt-to-equity financing. Furthermore, this paper investigates how educational components,
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Does CEOs’ Education Matter for Convertible Bond Issuance Decisions?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
We investigate the effect of CEOs’ education on their firms’ probability of choosing convertible debt instead of straight debt and equity. Using a security choice framework, we find that CEOs with higher levels of education have a greater likelihood of issuing convertible debt, particularly when this is beneficial to their firms.
Zainab Mehmood, Marie Dutordoir, Amedeo De Cesari   +2 more
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CEO Profiles and Implications for the Marketing Educator

2015
This study examines the characteristics of 1000 Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of America's top corporations, in order to provide factual information marketing educators may disseminate to students considering careers in marketing. Six research questions related to CEO career path, promotion speed, salary, educational level, and educational relevance ...
Earl D. Honeycutt, John B. Ford, Thomas H. Stevenson   +2 more
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CEO Education and Firm Performance in Nigeria

SSRN Electronic Journal
This study investigates the relationship between Chief Executive Officer (CEO) education and firm performance among publicly listed companies in Nigeria. Despite increasing interest in the role of executive characteristics in shaping corporate outcomes, limited empirical evidence exists on how the educational attainment of CEOs influences firm ...
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CEOs don educator's cap.

Hospitals, 1980
These days, an administrator has a duty to educate trustees and medical staff leaders about the complex legal, financial, and political matters facing their institutions.
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CEO perspectives: management education in a changing context

Corporate Governance: The international journal of business in society, 2011
PurposeThis paper seeks to make a contribution to debate regarding the place of sustainability in the management education curriculum with data regarding the opinions on this question of business leaders across both developed and emerging markets.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis in this paper was conducted at the invitation of the secretariat of
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Educational Networks, Mutual Fund Voting Patterns, and CEO Compensation

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
Mutual funds whose managers are in the same educational network as the firm's CEO are more likely to vote against shareholder-initiated proposals to limit executive compensation than out-of-network funds are. This voting propensity is stronger when voting among the funds in a family is not unanimous.
Alexander W. Butler, Umit G. Gurun
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