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Research: Could Machine Learning Help Companies Select Better Board Directors?

Harvard Business Review

Could technology help? We found that firms tend to choose directors who are much more likely to be male, have a large network, have a lot of board experience, currently serve on more boards, and have a finance background. Nonetheless, boards remain highly imperfect.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. It feels like it’s got a little bit of Kahneman and Tversky in it.

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