The study, a collaboration between Imperial College London, Columbia University, Harvard and the London School of Economics, focused on chief executive behaviour and firm performance. It says CEOs differ in how they behave across several dimensions and that, as a result, they can be categorised as either managers or leaders.
“The most important message is that there is no one-size-fits-all CEO. But modern machine learning methods applied to data on leadership can help identify CEO styles and how they match a firm’s needs,” says Stephen Hansen, the study’s lead researcher and associate professor of economics at Imperial College Business School.
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