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- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
political consensus to make investments in the infrastructure that will lead to more effective use of these resources. There is a largely unrecognized opportunity for the private sector to engage in selective investments that consider these trends. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
behavior bubbles below the radar An employee may not come forward right away to expose wrongdoing at a corporation for many reasons. In the absence of directly observing egregious behavior by a particular... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
budgeting, like death and taxes, will always be with us, deceitful behavior doesn't have to be. That's because the budget process itself isn't the root cause of the counterproductive actions; rather, it's the use of budget targets to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
disingenuous, and in some cases, can lead to behaviors that run counter to the organization’s objectives. But when it’s clear that our engagement is broadly helpful—to ourselves and to others—most people are delighted to engage. By... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
behaviors either were not reported or, if they were, not communicated up the line. Under these practices, top management’s claims that it was unaware of what was happening may be believable. But were there other, more obvious signs of... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
deployed systems did not." Second, capitalism tends to be self-correcting. When the free market does fail, the market itself steps in to correct the problem. For example, when investors lack information to properly determine the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
Financial data on US companies is easy to come by—if they are listed on the stock market. More than 99 percent of them are not, presenting a challenge for researchers intent on studying how privately held firms operate. “It seemed natural for us to look at how the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
into market manipulation, especially in Japan? Robin Greenwood: Generally speaking, market manipulation comes in two forms: manipulating investor expectations, or manipulating investors' ability to trade. Financial economists know a lot... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
that escalate anxiety in high achievers and the unproductive behaviors you turn to for relief. Then adopt practices that give you the courage to "do the right things poorly" before "doing the right things well."... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
taha ajmi/Unsplash Until the last year or so, the term "recency bias" was rarely a topic of cocktail conversation—unless it was a gathering of behavioral scientists letting their hair down. But then a news item surfaced about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
imposes restrictions on individual choice behavior that limit the types of substitution patterns that can be found through empirical analysis, and we raise fundamental questions about when the model can be used to recover individuals'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
smaller." John Homan suggested, "... that the Federal Government give a 10 percent tax credit to the purchaser of a house and the purchaser pay it back ... over 20 years in equal installments with no interest." Education in general as well as efforts to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
a different breed of investor? Do their behaviors pose any kind of long-term challenge that needs to be addressed now? What do you think? Original Article Whether we think we are part of a free market or not, are we really living in an... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
behavioral finance: How rational are individual investors? It touches on the quality of advice that investors get, and the relationships between investors and their financial... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
Dynamics of Warmth and Competence Judgments, and Their Outcomes in Organizations Authors:Amy J.C. Cuddy, Peter Glick, and Anna Beninger Publication:Research in Organizational Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract Two traits-warmth and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
holdings, we find considerable heterogeneity in investor demand for securitizations in the pre-crisis period. We argue that both investor beliefs and incentives help to explain this variation in demand. By... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
showing how certain investors spend a lot of time in private meetings with corporate executives—and how this gives the investors an unfair advantage, in spite of Federal regulations that are supposed to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
by investors and government regulators for hyping stocks and other questionable practices. The last CEO spent over one million dollars to redecorate his office and pushed through $3.6 billion in executive bonuses the day before he agreed... View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
Authors:Jakub Wojciech Jurek and Luis M. Viceira Revised Working Paper Author's Abstract We develop an analytical solution to the dynamic portfolio choice problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
wrote. “They are too general to cause a reasonable investor to rely upon them.” That’s typical of the way that many people and even employees view codes of conduct, says Eugene F. Soltes, Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding