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Study: A CEO’s Decision Making Is Shaped by Whether Their Parents Were Immigrants

Harvard Business Review

bank CEOs who were born in the U.S., banks between 1994 and 2006. The banking industry experienced a series of profound competitive shocks in the 1990s. The one we used was the Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act (IBBEA) of 1994 that legalized interstate branching in some U.S. Our sample consisted of 610 U.S.

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

The uncertainty-avoidance measure was originally created by Geert Hofstede through a cultural survey of more than 100,000 IBM employees around the world and subsequently confirmed in additional global surveys. The cultural dimensions identified by Hofstede have been used by more than a 1,000 academic studies.