Sydul Karim, assistant professor of finance and accounting in the College of Business and Information Technology, had one of his studies featured in Fortune magazine in the article titled "CEOs serving as board chairs are controversial but a new study shows they could be great during a crisis".
The article can be found at Fortune.com
In this study, Karim showed that U.S. public companies led by a CEO who was also chair outperformed their peers during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The full study can be found at ScienceDirect.com