As leaders, how do we know when we've made a mistake? Is it as simple as evaluating whether the outcome was good or bad? In this episode of All Else Equal: Making better decisions, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen discuss how risk/reward calculations can help define what is a mistake and what isn't.
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Jan 22
Ep71 “The Working From Home Revolution” with Nick Bloom
When the pandemic hit in 2020, working from home skyrocketed. Six years later, many companies have returned to in-person work, but hybrid models are still the dominant structure. So with WFH here to stay in some form, what’s the proper balance? And what are we at risk of losing i ... Show More
28m 16s
Jan 7
Ep70 "The Science Behind Why We Don’t Just Say What We Mean" with Psychologist Steven Pinker - Part 2
In the final part of this two-part interview, Steven Pinker, an experimental psychologist and Harvard professor, again joins hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen to discuss his new book When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows: Common Knowledge and t ... Show More
23m 46s
Nov 2023
Rapid Response: Your pandemic business takeaways are wrong, with co-authors Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean
<p>Kick the conventional wisdom. In this episode of Rapid Response, Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera sit down with Bob Safian to discuss their book, <em>The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind</em>. The pair faced blowback for the ... Show More
23m 20s
Jul 2023
Private Equity’s Impact on the Economy — with Gretchen Morgenson
Gretchen Morgenson, the senior financial reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit, and the co-author of These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks America, joins Scott to discuss her thoughts on how private equity impacts parts of the economy, and why she th ... Show More
1 h
Jul 2021
Private equity: what’s causing London interest?
<p class="MsoNormal">With private equity deals up in recent years, IGTV’s Jeremy Naylor discusses what’s happening with Colin McLean, founder of SVM Asset Management, which has interests in the private capital space. What’s happening, why now, and what’s the outlook?</p>
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14m 14s
Apr 2023
Private Equity’s Opaque World
If you want to maximize the value of your home for decades, you might update the kitchen. But if your time frame is one week, then you might burn down the house. Brendan Ballou is a federal prosecutor and special counsel at the Department of Justice, where he led the antitrust d ... Show More
28m 11s