We study the role of facial appearance in corporate director (re-)elections by means of director photographs published in annual reports. We find that...
In January 2020, Goldman Sachs announced that it would no longer underwrite the IPOs of firms with all-male boards, stating that gender-diverse board...
This paper provides evidence that the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests that followed the killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 brought long-lasting...
We show that observable skill signals are more important for women's career advancement than for men's. Signals of higher education and professional...
To the best of our knowledge this is the first study to investigate whether the presence of female directors in the boardrooms of US corporations...Read more
On International Women's Day, we interviewed six of our esteemed ECGI members. Here is an insightful perspective on women in corporate governance...Read more
The European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) held its Annual Working Paper Prize-giving ceremony in Lausanne on 28 April 2017. Two awards...Read more
Stock market investors are becoming increasingly vocal about the diversity of corporate leadership teams, following a global trend to engage with...Read more
The impact of appearance on the outcomes of political elections is attributed in the psychology literature to an instantaneous, unreflective and...Read more