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"The Tesco crisis may not match the BP and RBS disasters for impact, but there are parallels. The story involves corporate hubris, poor governance, private jets, perverse incentives – and...

“… the closeness of organizational identities in twin organizations may lead to increased rivalry, narcissism and a tendency for greater risk-taking and vulnerability. Prof Mark Stein, Chair in Leadership and...

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

“Leaders can do enormous harm if they do not sustain an awareness of the dangerous psychological states it is so easy to be sucked into as a leader   Erik...

"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,...

"new research examines the effects of greed on shareholder wealth and looks at whether various contextual factors, like a strong board of directors, CEO tenure and discretion make the situation...

“…offers managers a practical and systemic approach to diagnose leadership issues in their organisation, then provides an implementation process…” Professor Vlatka Hlupic, University of Westminster; also London Business School and...

The abject failure of U.K. Prime Minister Blair and U.S. President Bush to anticipate the consequences of the 2003 Iraq war and their belief that an invading force would be...

“..the problem (of hubris) seems to be so widespread that it raises a bigger question: namely, should investors in funds (or directors of financial institutions) now be looking for a...

“Amount of followers and discretionary choices independently predicted leader corruption… power interacted with endogenous testosterone in predicting corruption, which was highest when leader power and baseline testosterone were both high....