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INSIGHTS
Research and Press
Research Boutique Focuses on Company Management and Alternative Data
Paragon Intel’s core research product is the CEO Change Report, which provides deep-dive due diligence on new CEOs. The firm also offers JetTrack, which monitors corporate jet flight activity to predict corporate events such as mergers and acquisitions. The company was founded in January 2017 by Karim Mawji.
Investing in Companies Based on Management Behavior: A Conversation with Karim Mawji
Within Paragon Intel, a team of ex-hedge fund managers and analysts, investigative journalists, and ex-intelligence officers leverage their diverse expertise to perform comprehensive investigations and analysis before and after major structural changes to a company.
The CEO Effect on Firm Performance: An Excerpt from the Strategic Management Journal
38 percent of variance in ROA can be attributed to CEOs. Our technique also generates appreciably different insights about the influence and efficacy of many individual CEOs, perhaps most notably those whose performance differs dramatically from what they inherited and whose influence endures beyond their tenures—in short, the most impactful CEOs.
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