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  • spring 2006
  • Article

All's Fair in Love, War, & Bankruptcy: Corporate Governance Implications of CEO Turnover in Financial Distress

By: Ethan S. Bernstein
Prior discussions of management turnover during financial distress have examined bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms as distinct groupings with little overlap. Separately investigating rates of turnover in-bankruptcy and out-of-bankruptcy, without a direct comparison... View Details
Keywords: CEO Turnover; Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Shadow Of Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financing and Loans; Corporate Governance; Finance; Theory; Markets; United States
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Bernstein, Ethan S. "All's Fair in Love, War, & Bankruptcy: Corporate Governance Implications of CEO Turnover in Financial Distress." Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance 11, no. 2 (spring 2006): 299–325.
  • January 2025
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Communication Within Firms: Evidence from CEO Turnovers

By: Stephen Michael Impink, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
This paper uses novel, firm-level communication measures derived from communications metadata several months before and after a CEO transition for 102 firms to study whether and how this organizational event is reflected in employees’ communication flows. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Information; Communication; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Alignment
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Impink, Stephen Michael, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun. "Communication Within Firms: Evidence from CEO Turnovers." Management Science 71, no. 1 (January 2025): 470–487.
  • 28 Jan 2015
  • News

The Intracorporate Conspiracy Doctrine and CEO Turnover

  • 19 Apr 2023
  • News

CEO Turnover Is Booming. What’s Going On?

  • December 2017
  • Supplement

CEO Succession at Cisco: Video Supplement

By: Boris Groysberg and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
Excerpts of videotaped class visits and an interview with former Cisco CEO John Chambers about Cisco’s CEO succession planning process. Topics include Chambers’ reflections on the process; the roles of the incumbent CEO, board of directors, executive search, and the... View Details
Keywords: CEO Succession; CEO Turnover; Top Management Teams; Board Of Directors; Organizational Change; Strategic Human Resource Management; Strategy; High Technology; Management Succession; Managerial Roles; Corporate Governance; Organizational Culture; Change
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Groysberg, Boris, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng. "CEO Succession at Cisco: Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 418-705, December 2017.
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

CEO Tenure, Performance and Turnover in S&P 500 Companies

By: John C. Coates and Reinier Kraakman
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Coates, John C., and Reinier Kraakman. "CEO Tenure, Performance and Turnover in S&P 500 Companies." John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business Discussion Paper, No. 595, September 2007.
  • spring 2006
  • Article

All's Fair in Love, War & Bankruptcy?: Corporate Governance Implications of CEO Turnover in Financial Distress

By: Ethan S Bernstein
Prior discussions of management turnover during financial distress have examined bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms as distinct groupings with little overlap. Separately investigating rates of turnover in-bankruptcy and out-of-bankruptcy, without a direct comparison... View Details
Keywords: Management Succession; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance
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Bernstein, Ethan S. "All's Fair in Love, War & Bankruptcy?: Corporate Governance Implications of CEO Turnover in Financial Distress." Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance 11, no. 2 (spring 2006): 228–325.
  • December 2011
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Manager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers

By: Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel and Sarah McVay
We investigate how managers contribute to the provision of earnings guidance by examining the association between top executive turnovers and guidance. Although firm and industry characteristics are important determinants of guidance, we conclude that CEOs participate... View Details
Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Teams; Policy; Decisions; Change; Risk and Uncertainty; Leadership
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Brochet, Francois, Lucile Faurel, and Sarah McVay. "Manager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers." Journal of Accounting Research 49, no. 5 (December 2011).
  • 10 Dec 2020
  • News

CEO turnover hit lowest level in years as boards sought stability during COVID's early days

  • 1997
  • Working Paper

The Effects of CEO Turnover in Large Industrial Corporations: A Study of the Fortune 200 From 1978 - 1993 (Revised)

By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
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Nohria, Nitin, and Rakesh Khurana. "The Effects of CEO Turnover in Large Industrial Corporations: A Study of the Fortune 200 From 1978 - 1993 (Revised)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 96-056, December 1997.
  • 03 Jun 2021
  • News

How Eliminating Degree Requirements Can Save You Time, Money, and Turnover

  • March 2018
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Sachem Head's Activism at Autodesk

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher
In 2015, activist hedge fund Sachem Head Capital, led by founder Scott Ferguson, launched an activist campaign at computer aided design (CAD) software maker Autodesk. The activist campaign, waged mainly in private, was over Autodesk's lackluster financial performance,... View Details
Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Investing; Activist Investing; Technology; CEO Turnover; Hedge Fund Activism; Benchmarking; Corporate Governance; Information Technology; Investment Activism; Performance Improvement; Management Succession; United States
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Srinivasan, Suraj, and Quinn Pitcher. "Sachem Head's Activism at Autodesk." Harvard Business School Case 118-086, March 2018.
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The Strategic and Performance Consequences of CEO Succession

By: Rakesh Khurana
The argument of this paper (with Nitin Nohria) is that research on executive turnover treats the departures of predecessors and the origin of successors as independent events. This approach has led to mixed empirical findings with respect to measuring the effects of... View Details
  • 05 May 2017
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Barnes & Noble Names Demos Parneros CEO

Demos Parneros (AMP78, 2010), who had been working as Barnes & Noble’s COO for the last five months, has been named the booksellers new CEO. A story in the New York Times details the company’s recent struggles, which includes everything from executive View Details
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

him and one of its board members? Understanding the dynamics of the CEO search process, as well as the ways in which chief executive turnover influences corporate performance, has been the goal of recent... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment
  • March 2014
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Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets

By: Francois Brochet, Gregory S. Miller and Suraj Srinivasan
We examine the importance of professional relationships developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive moves from an origin firm to a... View Details
Keywords: Management Turnover; Analyst Coverage; Capital Market Relationships; Capital Markets; Relationships
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Brochet, Francois, Gregory S. Miller, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets." Accounting Review 89, no. 2 (March 2014).
  • 21 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

CEOs need to roll up their sleeves and learn more about the customer-facing sides of their businesses, like sales. Source: AlexBrylov Let’s face it: To most C-suite executives, sales processes are often an afterthought or a somewhat... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • January 2014 (Revised January 2014)
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Showdown at Cracker Barrel

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Tim Gray
In the fall of 2011, activist investor, Sardar Biglari, has acquired nearly 10% ownership in the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain. He believes that the board and senior management have failed and the company has underperformed relative to its peers. When he is denied a... View Details
Keywords: Boards; Activist Investors; Proxy Battles; Shareholder Activism; Peer Firm; Ratio Analysis; Financial Accounting; Financial Analysis; Board Of Directors; Boards Of Directors; Financial Intermediaries; Financial Analysts; CEO Turnover; New CEO; Peer Groups; Hedge Fund; Hedge Funds; Proxy Contest; Proxy Fight; Proxy Advisor; Proxy Battle; Financial Statement Analysis; Financial Strategy; Corporate Governance; Corporate Disclosure; Governing and Advisory Boards; Competition; Valuation; Business Strategy; Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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Srinivasan, Suraj, and Tim Gray. "Showdown at Cracker Barrel." Harvard Business School Case 114-026, January 2014. (Revised January 2014.)
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors

By: Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan
We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms.... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Retention; Managerial Roles; United States
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Li, Feng, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-018, August 2010.
  • 12 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

that an increase in wages will decrease theft, but won't fully pay off," Sandino says. Therefore, an employer may find that it makes sense to raise employee wages if other benefits from wage increases—such as reduced employee View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail
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