We also find that the smaller magnitude of negative stock price reaction is, in part, attributable to improvements in board of director characteristics.
For each of these models, we used the specialty (family medicine vs. internal medicine), the program director characteristics, and the residency program characteristics as the independent variables.
Recently, several studies have questioned the usefulness of independence as a primary director characteristic, with alternative director traits being proposed as superior measures of board quality, such as director co-option (Coles et al., 2014).
This is a visionary film in the director's characteristic style: mysterious, dreamlike, gentle, quiet, magical.
The four multidisciplinary pediatric weight management centres represented in this study were selected based on their existing administrative and research infrastructure, national leadership roles of their program directors, diverse demographic characteristics of the communities they serve, and similar philosophical approaches to providing family-centred care.
Lawrence Weschler's December 5 , 1994 Profile of Polanski makes it clear that determination is one of the director's foremost characteristics.
He'd presented to the Apple board of directors, and his characteristic anti-charm won them over.
The questionnaire, sent by e-mail, asked medical school directors/deans about any S/H courses that were taught, details about those courses, S/H lectures or seminars, importance of teaching this subject for medical school directors, and medical schools characteristics.
Director Henry King mined these characteristics best in 12 O'Clock High (1949), with Peck as a war-weary airforce officer, and in The Gunfighter (1950), in which, sporting a moustache for the first time, he played an ageing gunfighter who wants to renounce violence but whose past makes him a target for every young killer on the make.
We contribute to the academic literature by documenting one channel through which politically connected insiders can extract rents from shareholders; by documenting the relation between insiders' political connections and information leakage; and by documenting an important characteristic of directors' social network that influences their trading decisions.
