Never Mind the Résumé. How Hot Is the C.E.O.? (dealbook.nytimes.com)

7 points by JumpCrisscross 12y ago ↗ HN

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dded 12y ago ↗

Who was the last unattractive US president?

Haul4ss 12y ago ↗

Nixon?

dded 12y ago ↗

Agreed. And he famously believed that his "loss" to Kennedy in a televised debate was due to his not shaving.

ArbitraryLimits 12y ago ↗

Nixon wasn't ugly, he was creepy-looking. If he hadn't been creepy, he wouldn't have been creepy-looking - it wasn't a problem with his actual looks.

vicbrooker 12y ago ↗

I'm seeing a bit of confusion between correlation and causation, but the full paper seems to make a different point to the article anyway. I only skimmed so I'm not informed enough to summarise.

Full study here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2357756&d...

slurry 12y ago ↗

Misleading to have Marissa Mayer as the face of this article when the vast majority of the CEOs evaluated in the study were men.

Also, this is only "surrounding the first day when the C.E.O. is on the job". Value and long-term growth investors will not even notice.