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Keeves, Westphal and McDonald (2017) Those Closest Wield the Sharpest Knife: How Ingratiation Leads to Resentment and Social Undermining of the CEO

By Danielle BovenbergJune 13, 20220

Flattery works even when you have nothing to brag about. Gareth Keeves, James Westphal, and Michael McDonald on why ingratiating managers come to ...

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CARNAHAN & GREENWOOD (2017). Managers’ Political Beliefs and Gender Inequality among Subordinates: Does His Ideology Matter More Than Hers?

By kwjnleeSeptember 28, 20200

A Capitol Hill rumor that Republican officeholders paid their female staffers less sent Seth Carnahan and Brad Greenwood hunting for salary data. They ...

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Xu Huang, Louis Chen, Erica Xu, Feifei Lu, Ka-Chai Tam (2019). Shadow of the Prince: Parent-incumbents’ Coercive Control over Child-successors in Family Organizations

By Hui SunApril 3, 20201

Xu Huang recounts how his DBA student, now CEO of Taiwan's largest shoe manufacturer, insisted on studying succession while clashing with his own ...

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Li & Piezunka (2019). The Uniplex Third: Enabling Single-domain Role Transitions in Multiplex Relationships

By Hui SunAugust 23, 20191

Jian Bai Li and Henning Piezunka spent six years studying family businesses, waiting out the by-the-book founding stories until informants trusted them enough ...

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Podcast: Carton(2018). “I’m Not Mopping the Floors, I’m Putting a Man on the Moon”: How NASA Leaders Enhanced the Meaningfulness of Work by Changing the Meaning of Work

By amyzhaodingNovember 15, 20181

Andrew Carton joins the podcast to discuss how NASA leaders under Kennedy changed the meaning of work, so that an engineer building circuits ...

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FU, TSUI, LIU, & LI (2010). PURSUIT OF WHOSE HAPPINESS? EXECUTIVE LEADERS’ TRANSFORMATIONAL BEHAVIORS AND PERSONAL VALUES

By winnieyjiangJune 20, 20180

During interviews for the GLOBE project, Ping Ping Fu and Anne Tsui noticed that some transformational leaders held self-enhancing rather than self-transcendent values. ...

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Malhotra, Reus, Zhu, & Roelofsen (2017). The Acquisitive Nature of Extraverted CEOs

By amyzhaodingJanuary 17, 20180

Shavin Malhotra, Taco Reus, PengCheng Zhu, and Erik Roelofsen used machine learning on CEOs' unscripted conference-call speech to gauge personality, and found extraverted ...

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PODCAST: Brands & Fernandez-Mateo (2017). Leaning Out: How Negative Recruitment Experiences Shape Women’s Decisions to Compete for Executive Roles

By madelinejkingSeptember 13, 20170

Raina Brands and Isabel Fernandez-Mateo discuss why bruising recruitment experiences lead women to stop competing for executive roles, and what the Lean In ...

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Chen & Nadkarni (2017): It’s about Time! CEOs’ Temporal Dispositions, Temporal Leadership, and Corporate Entrepreneurship

By amyzhaodingFebruary 22, 20172

Strategy research long treated time as an external constraint imposed on executives. Jianhong Chen and Sucheta Nadkarni explain why they went looking inside ...

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Gupta & Wowak (2017). The Elephant (or Donkey) in the Boardroom: How Board Political Ideology Affects CEO Pay.

By jrcromwellFebruary 3, 20171

Abhinav Gupta and Adam Wowak join the podcast to discuss how directors' political ideologies shape CEO pay, and how Federal Election Commission records ...

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Park & Westphal (2013).Social Discrimination in the Corporate Elite: How Status Affects the Propensity for Minority CEOs to Receive Blame for Low Firm Performance

By cacevesumichMarch 2, 20160

Sun Hyun Park and James Westphal found white male executives steering blame toward minority CEOs in the press. The bigger surprise: female and ...

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Chatterjee and Hambrick (2011).Executive Personality, Capability Cues, and Risk Taking: How Narcissistic CEOs React to Their Successes and Stumbles

By cacevesumichDecember 17, 20150

Arijit Chatterjee and Donald Hambrick started noticing how much self-regard some CEOs displayed in press interviews. That variance became a research program on ...

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Ou, Tsui, Kinicki, Waldman, Xiao, & Song (2014). Humble Chief Executive Officers’ Connections to Top Management Team Integration and Middle Managers’ Responses

By cacevesumichNovember 11, 20150

Amy Ou, Anne Tsui, and colleagues were the first to test the effects of humble CEOs. Why now? The 2008 financial crisis, Ou ...

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Westphal, Park, McDonald, & Hayward (2012). Helping Other CEOs Avoid Bad Press: Social Exchange and Impression Management Support among CEOs in Communications with Journalists

By cacevesumichNovember 4, 20151

When bad earnings news hits, a CEO's best defense may be another CEO's praise. James Westphal, Sun Hyun Park, Michael McDonald, and Mathew ...

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Gerstner, König, Enders, & Hambrick (2013). CEO Narcissism, Audience Engagement, and Organizational Adoption of Technological Discontinuities

By cacevesumichJune 19, 20151

Measuring CEO narcissism meant ordering decades-old microfiche from the Chicago Public Library. Wolf-Christian Gerstner, Andreas König, Albrecht Enders, and Donald Hambrick on narcissistic ...

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Detert, Burris, Harrison, & Martin (2013). Voice Flows to and around Leaders: Understanding When Units Are Helped or Hurt by Employee Voice

By Pete AcevesFebruary 4, 20150

Speaking up is supposed to help organizations. James Detert, Ethan Burris, David Harrison, and Sean Martin discuss their finding that voice flowing sideways ...

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Zhu & Chen (2015). CEO Narcissism and the Impact of Prior Board Experience on Corporate Strategy

By Pete AcevesNovember 4, 20140

David Zhu and Guoli Chen discuss why narcissistic CEOs copy the strategies they personally witnessed on other boards while discounting what fellow directors ...

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Dahl, Dezső, & Ross (2012). Fatherhood and Managerial Style: How a Male CEO’s Children Affect the Wages of His Employees

By colloqNovember 7, 20131

When a male CEO has children, his employees' wages change. Michael Dahl, Cristian Dezső, and David Gaddis Ross explain how a newborn's randomly ...

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Keeves, Westphal and McDonald (2017) Those Closest Wield the Sharpest Knife: How Ingratiation Leads to Resentment and Social Undermining of the CEO

CARNAHAN & GREENWOOD (2017). Managers’ Political Beliefs and Gender Inequality among Subordinates: Does His Ideology Matter More Than Hers?

Xu Huang, Louis Chen, Erica Xu, Feifei Lu, Ka-Chai Tam (2019). Shadow of the Prince: Parent-incumbents’ Coercive Control over Child-successors in Family Organizations

Li & Piezunka (2019). The Uniplex Third: Enabling Single-domain Role Transitions in Multiplex Relationships

Podcast: Carton(2018). “I’m Not Mopping the Floors, I’m Putting a Man on the Moon”: How NASA Leaders Enhanced the Meaningfulness of Work by Changing the Meaning of Work

FU, TSUI, LIU, & LI (2010). PURSUIT OF WHOSE HAPPINESS? EXECUTIVE LEADERS’ TRANSFORMATIONAL BEHAVIORS AND PERSONAL VALUES

Malhotra, Reus, Zhu, & Roelofsen (2017). The Acquisitive Nature of Extraverted CEOs

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PODCAST: Brands & Fernandez-Mateo (2017). Leaning Out: How Negative Recruitment Experiences Shape Women’s Decisions to Compete for Executive Roles

Chen & Nadkarni (2017): It’s about Time! CEOs’ Temporal Dispositions, Temporal Leadership, and Corporate Entrepreneurship

Gupta & Wowak (2017). The Elephant (or Donkey) in the Boardroom: How Board Political Ideology Affects CEO Pay.

Park & Westphal (2013).Social Discrimination in the Corporate Elite: How Status Affects the Propensity for Minority CEOs to Receive Blame for Low Firm Performance

Chatterjee and Hambrick (2011).Executive Personality, Capability Cues, and Risk Taking: How Narcissistic CEOs React to Their Successes and Stumbles

Ou, Tsui, Kinicki, Waldman, Xiao, & Song (2014). Humble Chief Executive Officers’ Connections to Top Management Team Integration and Middle Managers’ Responses

Westphal, Park, McDonald, & Hayward (2012). Helping Other CEOs Avoid Bad Press: Social Exchange and Impression Management Support among CEOs in Communications with Journalists

Gerstner, König, Enders, & Hambrick (2013). CEO Narcissism, Audience Engagement, and Organizational Adoption of Technological Discontinuities

Detert, Burris, Harrison, & Martin (2013). Voice Flows to and around Leaders: Understanding When Units Are Helped or Hurt by Employee Voice

Zhu & Chen (2015). CEO Narcissism and the Impact of Prior Board Experience on Corporate Strategy

Dahl, Dezső, & Ross (2012). Fatherhood and Managerial Style: How a Male CEO’s Children Affect the Wages of His Employees

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