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Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter? / Steven N. Kaplan, Mark M. Klebanov, Morten Sorensen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaplan, Steven N.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w14195.
- NBER working paper series no. w14195
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2008.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2008.
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