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Hiring cheerleaders / Lauren Cohen in Management science, Vol. 58 N° 6 (Juin 2012) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Management science > Vol. 58 N° 6 (Juin 2012) . - pp.1039-1058. Titre : Hiring cheerleaders : Board appointments of “Independent” directors Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Lauren Cohen, Auteur ; Andrea Frazzini, Auteur ; Christopher J. Malloy, Auteur Année de publication : 2012 Article en page(s) : pp.1039-1058. Note générale : Management Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Independent  directors  Appointments  Analysts  Board  members Résumé : We provide evidence that firms appoint independent directors who are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, microlevel data on their views regarding the firm prior to being appointed to the board: sell-side analysts who are subsequently appointed to the boards of companies they previously covered. We find that boards appoint overly optimistic analysts who are also poor relative performers. The magnitude of the optimistic bias is large: 82.0% of appointed recommendations are strong buy/buy recommendations, compared with 56.9% for all other analyst recommendations. We also show that appointed analysts' optimism is stronger at precisely those times when firms' benefits are larger. Last, we find that appointing firms are more likely to have management on the board nominating committee, appear to be poorly governed, and increase earnings management and chief executive officer compensation following these board appointments. ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/early/2012/03/09/mnsc.1110.1483.abstra [...] [article] Hiring cheerleaders : Board appointments of “Independent” directors [texte imprimé] / Lauren Cohen, Auteur ; Andrea Frazzini, Auteur ; Christopher J. Malloy, Auteur . - 2012 . - pp.1039-1058. Management Langues : Anglais (eng) in Management science > Vol. 58 N° 6 (Juin 2012) . - pp.1039-1058. Mots-clés : Independent  directors  Appointments  Analysts  Board  members Résumé : We provide evidence that firms appoint independent directors who are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, microlevel data on their views regarding the firm prior to being appointed to the board: sell-side analysts who are subsequently appointed to the boards of companies they previously covered. We find that boards appoint overly optimistic analysts who are also poor relative performers. The magnitude of the optimistic bias is large: 82.0% of appointed recommendations are strong buy/buy recommendations, compared with 56.9% for all other analyst recommendations. We also show that appointed analysts' optimism is stronger at precisely those times when firms' benefits are larger. Last, we find that appointing firms are more likely to have management on the board nominating committee, appear to be poorly governed, and increase earnings management and chief executive officer compensation following these board appointments. ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/early/2012/03/09/mnsc.1110.1483.abstra [...]