Which CEO characteristics and abilities matter?
By: Steven N. Kaplan, Mark M. Klebanov, Morten Sorensen.
Contributors: Klebanov, Mark M.; Sorensen, Morten.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 14195; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 14195.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "We study the characteristics and abilities of CEO candidates for companies involved in buyout (LBO) and venture capital (VC) transactions and relate them to hiring decisions, investment decisions, and company performance.  Candidates are assessed on more than thirty individual abilities.  The abilities are highly correlated; a factor analysis suggests there are two primary factors with intuitive characterizations -- one for general ability and one that contrasts team-related, interpersonal skills with execution skills.  Both LBO and VC firms are more likely to hire and invest in CEOs with greater general abilities, both execution- and team-related.  Success, however, is more strongly related to execution skills than to team-related skills.  Success is, at best, only marginally related to incumbency, holding observable talent and ability constant"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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