Harvard Business Review (Digital)

Harvard Business Review (Digital)

1 Issue, September 2016

About the Research

Using proprietary data from a global executive placement firm, along with detailed career histories, we analyzed 2,034 executive job moves across multiple functions, industries, seniority levels, and geographies from 2004 to 2011. For each move, we captured geography, position title, industry, company names, individual attributes such as gender and education, and compensation levels from both prior and placed positions. Nearly half the placements were for positions other than C-level, president, or vice president.
Prior and placed jobs had a mean total compensation of $294,000 and $331,000, respectively. On average, the executives had almost 19 years of professional experience. Of the placed executives, 18% were women (a notably higher proportion than in data sets relying exclusively on C-level executives). Of the executives studied, 18% had worked at a company marked by earnings misstatements captured in either the GAO database or the AAER database. The GAO database captures only restatements, and the AAER database captures SEC enforcement actions that have been flagged with an AAER designation. The employment of these executives clearly predated any misdeeds, and they were never legally implicated in a scandal. We measured the impact on firstyear total compensation when an executive with a scandal firm on his or her resume was placed by…
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