In the early 1980s, the dental care company Colgate decided to pursue the flourishing readymade meals market and debut its own line of frozen entrees. Yet rather than broaden Colgate's market share, the strategy backfired ...
Economics & Business
Aug 26, 2022
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Publicly traded companies are required to disclose the ratio of their CEO compensation to the median pay of their employees—a rule that was adopted beginning in 2018 by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ...
Economics & Business
Aug 18, 2022
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Narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism are ubiquitous among CEOs, despite ample evidence that these dark personality traits pose financial and managerial risks to organizations. Their prevalence on corporate boards—nearly ...
Economics & Business
Jun 3, 2022
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Companies often motivate executives by staging CEO tournaments—internal competitions to replace departing company leaders—but for those executives who lose the bid to become CEO, opportunities will probably arise elsewhere, ...
Economics & Business
Apr 29, 2022
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Global acceptance of homosexuality has risen over the past two decades to 72 percent in 2019 from 51 percent in 2002. Despite this, a report from last year found that majority of American LGBTQ+ workers have faced job discrimination.
Social Sciences
Apr 28, 2022
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Female CEOs face more aggressive questioning from male analysts during earnings conference calls, a new study reveals.
Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2022
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Business leaders have traditionally avoided wading into sensitive social and political debates. Yet, increasingly, CEOs are taking visible public stands on hotly contested issues, engaging in what has come to be called CEO ...
Economics & Business
Feb 22, 2022
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A third of the new CEOs are hired outside the company despite the fact that on average their performance is lower than those who reach the top by internal promotion. A study shows that the reasons are to be found in the misalignment ...
Economics & Business
Dec 9, 2021
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In the business world, the adage often holds true: the buck stops at the desk of the chief executive officer. That's the way accountability should work.
Economics & Business
Dec 1, 2021
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Newly tenured CEOs in the consumer products industry are more likely to announce a product safety recall than CEOs who have been in the position longer, according to a new study of 25 years of recalls at publicly traded companies.
Economics & Business
Nov 17, 2021
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