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Fixing the Game: What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL

Leading Blog

In 1976, Harvard finance professor Michael Jensen and Dean William Meekling of the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester published a paper entitled Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure [ PDF ]. THE STORY BEGINS. Like us on Facebook.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Kind regards, Ian 22 March Dear all, First, some breaking news: the winner of CMI's Management Book of the Year 2022 competition is… The Power of Difference: Where the Complexities of Diversity and Inclusion Meet Practical Solutions by Simon Fanshawe ( Kogan Page ). We’ve got an exclusive interview with Simon here !

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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

Strikingly, the executives involved in these cases did not make the classic decision-making errors that have been so well documented in the fields of behavioral decision research, behavioral economics, and behavioral finance. housing market could collapse and trigger a global financial crisis. And few people foresaw that the U.S.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

The late Julian Simon (better known, perhaps, for his optimistic views about population growth and resource abundance) thought up the idea for having airlines auction off overbooked seats and persuaded the Civil Aeronautics Board, which used to regulate airlines fares and entry, to permit the idea in the 1970s. Economists and finance.