Papers

"Political and technocratic elites were hubristically detached from the process of financial innovation as it took the form of ‘bricolage’.” This put finance beyond technical control or management.   Ewald...

"Hubristic pride can exacerbate prejudice, while a more self-confident, authentic pride may help to reduce racism and homophobia. How we feel about ourselves influences how we feel about people who...

"Organizations need to anticipate the tendency of their most powerful members to leap without looking. The remedy is to surround them with people who can see other angles, or can...

"The authors investigate the relationship between CEO hubris, a firm’s managerial, governance and market oversight attributes, and a propensity to financial misreporting.   Michel Magnan, John Molson School of Business Concordia...

“Leadership is a word I am most uncomfortable with. It has so many meanings and nuances of meaning, many of which are contradictory …. Wanting a strong leader may be...

“…it is possible that coupling dominant CEOs with powerful boards represents an ideal governance arrangement.” Jianyun Tang, Memorial University of Newfoundland Mary Crossan & W. Glenn Rowe, Richard Ivey School...

"Although leaders should be enocuraged to be confident, there is a risk in encouraging overconfidence. In fact, leaders should try to keep their confidence fairly low when it is necessary...

"..overconfident managers use less external finance .. CEOs who grew up during the Great Depression are averse to debt .. CEOs with military experience pursue more aggressive policies   Malmendier, U., University...

"One cost of exerting authority is that its operation may be degraded under conditions of stress  ... this may be manifest in part as the 'hubris syndrome',   Professor Trevor...

"Overconfident CEOs are more likely to issue optimistically biased forecasts because they overestimate their ability to affect their financial results and/or they underestimate the probability of random events   Hribar,...