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As the U.S. becomes more politically polarized, so does corporate leadership, paper says

by Matt Levin

Jun 28, 2022

Research indicates executives in a given company are now more likely to all be of the same party, and that has consequences.

"Executive teams have become more partisan. We like to match with other like-minded individuals," said Elisabeth Kempf, a professor at the University of Chicago and a co-author of the paper.

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Why Amazon continues to deliver CEOs to startups

by Bennett Purser and Kai Ryssdal

Nov 20, 2019

From Hulu to WeWork, multiple corporate leaders have gotten their start at the online retail giant.

Bezos founded Amazon in his garage in 1994.

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