Gender and Geography in the Boardroom, What Really Matters for Board Decisions?

Professor Conrad Ciccotello, director of and professor at the Reiman School of Finance in the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver, joins the show to discuss his working paper, Gender and Geography in the Boardroom: What Really Matters for Board Decisions? (joint with Profs. Zinat Alam, Mark Chen, and Harley Ryan).

Note: the interview and Appendices comprise the first 50 minutes. For this episode, we also have a bonus Appendix—-the final 10 minutes is a conversation between Conrad and Greg about the switch to virtual work by boards of directors and how it interacts with Conrad's experience on boards of directors and his research on geography and corporate governance.

Appendices:

Conrad Ciccotello: Gender, Geography and the Boardroom (in The Corporate Board, Sept.-Oct. 2017), by Profs. Zinat Alam, Mark Chen, Conrad Ciccotello, and Harley Ryan

Greg Shill: How Close Is Close? The Spatial Reach of Agglomeration Economies, by Profs. Stuart Rosenthal & William Strange, Journal of Economic Perspectives Summer 2020

Jeff Lin: The Internal Geography of Firms, by Profs. Dominick Bartelme & Oren Ziv, working paper

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Producer: Schuyler Pals.

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