{"id":1250,"date":"2017-06-12T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annelitwin.com\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2017-06-12T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T12:00:08","slug":"male-ceos-daughters-socially-responsible-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annelitwin.com\/blog\/blog-posts\/male-ceos-daughters-socially-responsible-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Male CEOs with Daughters Are More Socially Responsible Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI just came across an interesting new study<\/a>, reported in the Harvard Business Review<\/em> (HBR), showing that companies run by male executives with female children rated higher on measures of corporate social responsibility (CSR), defined as \u201cmeasures of diversity, employee relations, and environmental stewardship,\u201d than is true for comparable companies led by men with no daughters.\u00a0 This means that male CEOs with daughters spend significantly more net income on CSR priorities than is true for other companies (unless the CEO is a woman, but more on this later).\nAlison Beard, writing for HBR, reports on this research by Henrik Cronqvist of the University of Miami and Frank Yu of China Europe International Business School, who examined the CSR ratings of S&P 500 companies tracked between 1992 and 2012 and compared the CSR ratings for male executives with male and female offspring.\u00a0 Beard notes that other researchers have found similar results on voting records for US congressmen who have daughters and for the decisions of US Court of Appeals judges with daughters.\u00a0 Here are some of the findings:\n\n\n