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Family, Management, Ownership, Research Findings
How do firms, managers and incentives match up?
In a journal article by Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun, the authors combine unique administrative and survey data to study the match between firms and managers, illustrating how risk aversion and talent shape firms' selection and motivation of managers.
Family, Management, Ownership, Research Findings
How do financial resources affect decision-making?
Professor Stefan Meier and colleagues find that, among low socio-economic groups, scarce resources indeed can affect one’s willingness to delay gratification when making choices about monetary rewards.
Family, Management, Research Findings
How are information, communication and influence related?
Professor Andrea Prat and colleagues study the information flows that arise among a set of agents with local knowledge and directed payoff interactions.
Consulting, Family, Research Findings
Grandma Knows Best
How does family interaction impact age of autism spectrum disorder diagnosis?
Family, Leadership, Management, Research Findings
Do CEO’s matter? How do family deaths impact them?
Using a unique dataset from Denmark, Professor Daniel Wolfenzon and colleagues find that CEO and family deaths are strongly correlated with declines in firm operating profitability, investment and sales growth.