The CEPR International Virtual Organization Economics Seminars (CIVOE-Seminars) is aimed at drawing together organizational economics and personnel economics speakers during this time when our university and NBER conferences are occurring less frequently. We are also taking the opportunity to make this a truly international collection of colleagues and speakers. We will meet via a webinar bi-weekly on Mondays at 6pm CEST. Further details about CIVOE can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/cepr-ivoes.
Our fifth CIVOE seminar will be on Monday 15th June 2020 at 6pm CEST / 5pm London / 12pm East Coast / 11am Chicago / 9am West Coast. Our speaker will be Raffaella Sadun (Havard Business School and CEPR) presenting on “The Changing Nature of the CEO Job” with Joe Fuller, Stephen Hansen, Tejas Ramdas.
Title: The Changing Nature of the CEO Job
Authors: Joe Fuller, Stephen Hansen, Tejas Ramdas and Raffaella Sadun
Abstract: How has the job of the CEO changed over time? We study this question using a proprietary corpus of CEO job descriptions from a major headhunting firm. The data covers several thousand searches over a 20-year period. We propose a novel text-mining algorithm for mapping the free-text sentences found in documents into well-defined categories of skills and capabilities provided in the O*NET database. We find differences in the demand for skills across industries, and a stark increase in the demand for social skills (i.e., skills that facilitate interactions among people, persuasion, and team work more generally) over operational skills (i.e., skills that relate to the execution of set operational and financial goals, measurement of performance, and controls over physical and human resources). The increase in the demand for social skills is starker in companies with greater IT investments, suggesting a possible complementarity between specific leadership characteristics and the adoption of new technologies.
Please register your interest by using this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtdumvqjgoHdRq_QySQvjDNXpCey-w-jiD.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. If you have registered for the fourth CIVOE seminar, you will not need to register again as you will be able to use the same Zoom details from last week to access the fifth CIVOE seminar.Please feel free to forward this email to anyone you think may be interested. This will be the last seminar for this semester. However, we are excited to announce that we will continue the CIVOE Seminar series in the fall with 7 bi-weekly seminars beginning on Monday 14 September 2020.
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