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"...the link between CEOs’ disaster experience and corporate policies has real economic consequences on firm risk and its cost of capital." Bernile, G., Bhagwat, V., Rau, P. R. The Journal of Finance, 72(1), 167-206 Image: Bureau of Land Management / Wikimedia Commons "There is a growing consensus that CEOs’ past experiences in life account for much of the variation in corporate risk-taking...

In light of the recent publication 'Fire and Fury' by Michael Wolff, CNN's Michael Smerconish states that we are wrong to speculate on US President Donald Trump's state of mental health, and that we're too quick to give "armchair diagnoses". Dr Nassir Ghaemi, Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts is invited onto the show to discuss his book published in 2011, titled 'A First Rate Madness', where he claims "...

Board hubris ran high while hedge funds scented blood, shorting the stock. Bailey, D. Professor of Industrial Strategy, Aston Business School Birmingham Post, 18 January 2018 Image: Wikimedia Commons "Carillion's demise will go down as one of the biggest corporate governance scandals in the UK for quite a while. "Let's be clear: responsibility first and foremost has to be placed at the hands of the ...

"Vulnerability loops are most powerful in moments of stress..."people either dig in and become defensive, and start justifying, and a lot of tension gets created."" Coyle, D. Daniel Coyle, author Image: United States Department of Defense / Wikimedia Commons "When you think about great leadership, you tend to think ...

"CEOs’ hubris may provide the required force for overcoming obstacles to the development and introduction of green innovations." Arena, C., Michelon, G. and Trojanowski, G. (2017), Big Egos Can Be Green: A Study of CEO Hubris and Environmental Innovation. British Journal of Management. doi: 10.1111/1467-8551.12250 "Hubristic CEOs are usually impulsive and restless individuals affected by hyper-levels of self-evaluation,...

"Given the extraordinary power imbalance that’s now the norm in Silicon Valley boardrooms, it should be no surprise that many founder-CEOs are behaving badly. In fact, the real surprise may be that so many of them still behave well." Blank, S. Adjunct professor at Stanford University, a senior fellow at Columbia University, and a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. Harvard Business Review, November - De...