Document Type

Report

Key Takeaways

• The social class upbringing of CEOs has a lingering effect on their strategic decision-making as CEO. • CEOs from middle class upbringings engage in less strategic risk-taking, such as R&D spending, than those from upper or lower classes. • CEOs from lower class backgrounds are more risk averse if they were educated at an elite university.

Publication Date

2017

Disciplines

Business

Copyright

© 2017, University of South Carolina

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