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How Stress Ages CEOs

The Horizons Tracker

For each firm, they assessed any state-level protections offered to buffer against takeovers or industry crises. A number of states enacted laws to prohibit hostile takeovers of firms, with this appearing to significantly reduce the stress experienced by CEOs. Life expectancy.

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How Business Schools Can Help Reduce Inequality

Harvard Business Review

As the authors put it, “any leader with a long view understands that business has a profound stake in the prosperity of the average American.”. Business managers are gaining professional status partly because they see in their work the basic responsibilities [to the public] that other professional men have long recognized as theirs.”