This paper investigates the extent to which female Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) affect corporate leverage. We examine CFOs in UK firms and find that they significantly reduce leverage of firm; however, a CFO's ability influence is moderated by senior decision-making environment firm. In particular, are more effective reducing with boards diverse respect gender, nationality age, where Executi...

Abstract The soaring compensation levels of chief executive officers (CEOs) have spurred an intense debate about its outcomes. This paper examines understudied outcome in this regard: employee engagement. Using a dynamic panel model with data from 336 publicly listed firms across 26 countries, we find that engagement is generally unaffected by CEO (over)compensation. However, negative effects e...

It is with great pleasure that the American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) team and I welcome our new Chief Executive Officer Jon Fanning, MS, CAE, CNED, effective March 1, 2021. has over 20 years experience working organizations on strategic planning, driving membership growth, developing advocacy initiatives cultivating partnerships both domestically internationally. Since 2013, h...