Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 24, 2017
Might this difference in education influence how CEOs behave when it comes to setting a course and trimming corporate sails? We looked at over 70,000 lawsuits filed against our sample of firms in federal courts during those 10 years. Lawyers were much less aggressive in accrual accounting relative to industry levels.
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