CEO Characteristics, CEO-Firm Match and Corporate Refocus Value

This paper investigates how CEO characteristics affect firm value through divestiture. Using a novel dataset tracking CEO’s career path, from which CEO’s talent and expertise are reasonably inferred, I find when CEOs have differing abilities across divisions of conglomerates, they more likely divest...

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Main Author: HUANG, Sheng
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3181
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/4180/viewcontent/HuangS2007CEOCharacteristics.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English