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Management CV's mission is to provide a clear and unbiased source of information on the CEOs and other senior executives that run major public companies. Our research analysis focuses on three important things - the executives prior track records, current performance relative to direct competitors in the industry, and diligence on any important issues that might affect executive performance and motivation. We are not a stock picking service or a predictor of stock market movements, although we do focus our analysis on relative performance versus industry competitors. Our goal is to provide our clients with a superb caliber of management diligence that gives them confidence as fiduciaries that they truly understand who these people are, what they've done in the past, and what their likely future performance might be.

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Do CEOs have a measurable impact on company performance? The answer to practitioners such as company investors, commercial lenders, and Wall Street traders seems empirically obvious-of course, they do! Yet, decades of academic study is generally inconsistent with these expectations. Hard, quantitative, research on the percentage of variance in firm performance over time that is explained by a firm's particular CEO ranges from a low of 3.9% to a high of 14.7% (Lieberson & O'Connor, 1972, Thomas, 1988; Wasserman, Nohria, and Anand, 2001). Thus, according to past research, the relative size of this intuitively obvious "CEO effect" is actually much smaller than the impact of industry and many other firm attributes on a firm's performance. As with many things in academic research, this conclusion just doesn't fit with actual practitioner's observations and...more