Events

Professor Eugene Sadler-Smith and Dr Graham Robinson, members of the our Trust’s Advisory Group, will both be speaking at the upcoming ‘Hubris in Business and Management’ symposium. The event, hosted...

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 13.30-17.00, Rik Medlik Building, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH Hubris is excessive self-confidence, exaggerated self-belief, and contempt for the advice and criticism of others; it...

Biographies of the speakers at our recent 'Leadership: Stress and hubris' conference, along with abstracts for most of their presentations, are available here: Abs and bios

"Simply recognising the cognitive constraints on decision-making is thus a first step towards making policy robust to them. So too is institutional design   Speech given by Andrew G Haldane,...

How the Bank of England structures policy making to counteract hubris and other biases, and a proposal to limit UK Prime Ministers’ terms were among the highlights of a fascinating Daedalus...

A fascinating lineup of speakers is programmed for our next conference. Andy Haldane, Chief Economist of the Bank of England has now been confirmed to open the day with a keynote address....

Save the date: next conference Monday 17 November 2014. A fascinating lineup of speakers is programmed for our next conference. Andy Haldane, Chief Economist of the Bank of England has now been confirmed...

"Richard Branson is a handy starting point from which to try to explore the media’s involvement in this game because it is substantial. There’s no question that a lot of...

“How do the media magnify charisma when it’s a good thing, and deflate hubris when it needs to be?” “I think they do it very badly…” Jon Snow (long-serving Channel...

"I should start with one of the most charismatic politicians of the 20th Century, Franklin D Roosevelt. He was not a consensual figure; he knew how to hate… he was...