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Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid?

Harvard Business Review

My focus was on peer-reviewed journal articles (academic papers) that included reliable measures of CEO attributes (e.g., I came up with three major conclusions from this literature review: CEOs Do Matter a Lot. Jeffrey Skilling’s greed cost Enron shareholders $63 billion. Especially When They Are Bad. million.

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

Particularly, I wonder to what extent business schools foster the integral skills these higher-ambition leaders use as a foundation for their success: Business Integration. For example, in finance courses students learn that profitability and return on assets is the measure of business success.