Tom C. W. Lin (Temple): CEOs and Presidents. Renee B. Adams (UNSW), Matti Keloharju (Aalto), and Samuli Knupfer (LBS): Match Made at Birth? What Traits of a Million Swedes Tell Us About CEOs. Gennaro Bernile (Singapore Management), Vineet Bhagwat (Oregon), and P. Raghavendra Rau (Cambridge): What Doesn't Kill You Will Only Make You More Risk-Loving: Early-Life Disasters and CEO Behavior. Eric Chemi and Ariana Giorgi on the pay-for-performance myth. Alan Pyke on how the more a company pays its CEO, the worse its shareholders do. The introduction to Indispensable and Other Myths: Why the CEO Pay Experiment Failed and How to Fix It by Michael B. Dorff. Gretchen Gavett on how CEOs get paid too much, according to pretty much everyone in the world. Roberto A. Ferdman on how the pay gap between CEOs and workers is much worse than you realize. Josh Kovensky on the Chief Happiness Officer, the latest, creepiest job in Corporate America. Haibo Zhou and Isabel Estrada (Groningen) and Ana Bojica (Granada): The Role of Emotional Intelligence on Entrepreneurs’ Perception of Success. Entrepreneurs anonymous: Instead of romanticising entrepreneurs people should understand how hard their lives can be. Why innovators hate M.B.A.: Peter Thiel, Scott Cook, and Elon Musk have all spoken out about why B-school grads hurt rather than help innovation — but is it really true? Competition is for losers: If you want to create and capture lasting value, look to build a monopoly, writes Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel is a closet humanist: Elizabeth Winkler reviews Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel (and more). Do consultants really save as much money as they claim? No, say consultants who consulted on the consultants. Sorry, Wall Street — paying young bankers more won’t make you cool again.
