Accounting and Systemic Risk
Professors Trevor Harris and Doron Nissim and Executive-in-Residence Robert Herz discuss their new paper on accounting's role in reporting, creation, and reduction of systemic risk at financial institutions and across the financial system.
Feeling the Future
Placing greater trust in one's feelings can help us forecast future events.
Confidence Game
From the archive: Men’s honest overconfidence — not overt discrimination — may play an important role in male domination of the C-suite.
No Double Jeopardy?
New research considers whether black women in leadership roles escape backlash.
Can Quotas Bring Equity to the Boardroom?
How the science of networks can help remedy the persistent underrepresentation of women on corporate boards.
Modeling Multiple Relationships in Social Networks
Target marketing efforts in networks — online and off — by identifying and predicting how multiple relationships form.
Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?
Established businesses can reinvigorate their products and services, says Rita McGrath, if they are willing to cast aside assumptions that impede the development of new business models.
Wait and See, at a Cost
New research shows that investors may lose out on potential returns by waiting too long to capitalize on new opportunities, seeking assurance in others' taking the first risk.
Complicating Choice
When it comes to life's biggest decisions, we make our choices harder than they may really be.