S1E2 - Conrad Ciccotello: Gender and Geography in the Boardroom: What Really Matters for Board Decisions?
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How Firms Internalize Internal Distance Costs
Conrad: A recent working paper called internal geography of firms shows that small and mid sized firms tend to be very graphically concentrated. But what's interesting is that this is significantly less true for large firms. Large firms are much less spatially concentrated compared with the industry by and far, Conrad says. The interpretation I think is here is that the large firms appear to face lower internal distance costs compared with small firms,' he adds. Greg: We view our job as a board if just the CEO to always be looking at stuff that he might be doing wrong and then bust them when you catch them. Then I view that as somewhat of a different question from kind of the analysis that in the
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