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HBS Working Knowledge
March 5, 2009
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How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be? Several leadership concepts, such as "transparency," are in vogue these days. Perhaps we should add "self-fulfilling prophecies" to the list. |
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Financial Planning
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White Paper A new theory of financial behavior: The seeming irrationality of the typical investor is, in fact, a series of adaptive responses to an uncertain, rapidly changing environment. |
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Understanding and Guiding Client Behavior Financial professionals face the complex challenge of effectively responding to the financial and emotional needs of their clients, while managing their own emotional reactions to the current turbulent markets. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2008
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From Visionary to Innovator Robert J. Shiller has often been described as a visionary. In recent years his vision of new financial markets has started to become a reality. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 1, 2011 |
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy? Jim Heskett explores the argument for a more deliberative approach to problem solving offered up in the new Daniel Kahneman book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. |
BusinessWeek
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"Economists Suffer from Physics Envy" In search of a better economics theory, MIT's Andrew Lo says evolutionary dynamics could shed light on why investors behave as they do |
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Edward Teach |
Watch How You Think Insights from behavioral finance could change the way companies approach mergers and acquisitions. |
Financial Advisor
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Do Investors Make Rational Or Emotional Decisions? Behavioral finance looks to predict investor action. |
On Wall Street
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| Knowledge@Wharton |
Is Behavioral Finance a Growth Industry? The subdiscipline of behavioral finance has gained ground over the last half-decade. The idea is simple: Investors are not as rational as traditional theory has assumed, and biases in their decision-making can have a cumulative effect on asset prices... |
BusinessWeek
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Why Logic Often Takes A Backseat By linking economic behavior to brain activity rather than rational decision-making, neuroeconomics may finally supply the model that knocks mainstream economics off its throne. |
Finance & Development
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The Human Face of Economics A profile of George Akerlof, 2001 economics Nobel laureate. |
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April 2007
Susan L. Hirshman |
Review Your Review A few small changes can enhance your financial advisory client reviews. |
Salon.com
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Oh behave! Why do we buy more when we have less to spend? Behavioral economists can explain... |
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Economist Robert Shiller: Is a Double Dip in Housing Ahead? Economist Robert Shiller talks about the housing market, financial reform and more. |
Finance & Development
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Modern Macroeconomics Is on the Wrong Track The former Bank for International Settlements chief economist argues that the global economic crisis should prompt a rethinking of macroeconomic analysis |
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Destined For A Fall Robert Shiller, a professor of economics at Yale University, predicts housing prices will drop -- but he says no one knows how far. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist? An interview with Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf about her research on how Adam Smith's 1759 work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, presages the emerging field of behavioral economics. |
Financial Advisor
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Clients Misbehavin' Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist at Princeton University, applies lessons from behavioral finance to client management and identifies several common mistakes individual investors are prone to make. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 6, 2007
Julia Hanna |
Behavioral Finance--Benefiting from Irrational Investors Far from acting in their own best interest, many individual and institutional investors are more inertial than logical when it comes to emptying their portfolios of unwanted shares. This passive behavior can have a significant effect on how companies make strategic financing decisions. |
Finance & Development
June 2011
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What Are Economic Models? How economists try to simulate reality |
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March 1, 2003
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The Lab Man How experimental economics emerged from the shadows: an interview with Nobel Prize winner Vernon L. Smith |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement? Will you be taking a brain-scan for your next job interview? What is the emerging world of neuromanagement and what does it mean? |
Fast Company
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What Is the New Economics? Yale economist Robert J. Shiller wrote the defining book on the Internet bubble. Now he's busy rewriting the laws of economics, where emotion and psychology dominate data and numbers. (And in his spare time, he's busy worrying about his own dotcom.) |
On Wall Street
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Denise Federer |
Guiding Choices to Secure A Client's Future As an advisor you have the potential to play a powerful role in guiding your clients to make tough choices and initiate steps that ensure their family's financial futures. |
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Rethinking Economics in a Changed World Three Nobel laureates discuss what the global crisis has taught us. |
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The Behavior Profile Are you a perceptive financial advisor? Being able to identify your client's financial decision-making and investment style is important in communicating effectively with them. |
Finance & Development
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Big Bad Bonuses? Pros and cons of bankers' bonuses: one defends bankers' bonuses; one says they are a symptom of a bigger problem -- reckless risk taking by big financial players. |
BusinessWeek
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Economic Recovery: What the Economists Say Harvard's Rogoff says economists deserve a portion of the blame for this crisis. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
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Redrawing the Boundaries We do need to fix the financial markets, and that means, in a variety of ways, a bigger role for government. But we do not need bigger government. Or, except in relation to the powers of corporate executives, do we need to fix the market economy in general. |
Finance & Development
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The Big and the Small Picture Why economics is split into two realms. |
The Motley Fool
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5 Questions for Bankers A gaggle of Wall Street bankers will be hauled before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission later this week. The topic: their role in blowing up the economy. |
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Selena Maranjian |
Fool Yourself -- Into Saving More Use some psychological tricks and end up richer. |
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Dan Caplinger |
What Money Means to You Money is a valuable tool in allowing you to reach your goals. In saving and investing, however, don't forget accumulating money in itself isn't the goal but rather simply the way to get you there. |
Investment Advisor
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The Wealth Advisor: Profiting by Behavior Competition for affluent clients is fiercer than ever. To attract their attention, you need to stand out from the crowd. You must have better insights about your clients and the markets and a better process to deliver your services. In other words, you have to be a wealth manager. |
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March 2007
Olivia Mellan |
Do You Believe in Magic? When it comes to financial matters, clients may think or act in seemingly irrational ways due to their fear of bad luck, their hopes for good fortune, or a belief that a certain outcome has resulted solely from chance. If you encounter such situations, here are some ideas on how to handle them. |
Registered Rep.
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Anne Field |
Human Behavior A discipline combining economics and psychology, behavioral finance turns one basic tenet of economic theory -- that people make rational decisions when given the right information -- on its head. |
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August 11, 2014
Michael Blanding |
The Business of Behavioral Economics Leslie John and Michael Norton explore how behavioral economics can help people overcome bad habits and change for the better. |
Investment Advisor
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Advisors Beware: The Downside of Behavioral Finance A superficial understanding of behavioral finance can be counterproductive |
Bank Director
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In the Eye of the Storm Former Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan speaks candidly about the financial crisis of 2008, the landmark Dodd-Frank Act and the need for minimum loan underwriting standards for the banking industry. |
The Motley Fool
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Brad Hessel |
Can Behavioral Economics Boost Your Retirement Savings? Shaped by 190,000 years of pre-civilization experience, humans make bad long-term value choices -- but there's hope yet. |
CIO
May 1, 2003
Meridith Levinson |
Why Good CIOs Make Bad Decisions Dan Ariely's research in behavioral economics seeks to explain why CIOs make poor investment decisions and why they don't know what technology is worth. |
Financial Advisor
April 2004
Marla Brill |
Recent Lessons From Behavioral Finance Don't look for logic in the way investors act, say these experts. |
On Wall Street
January 1, 2011
Lee Conrad |
Crossing From The Ivory Tower To The Office Tower Knowing what an investor wants and how his or her feelings color decision-making is becoming more crucial in the increasingly competitive world of attracting and retaining high-net-worth clients. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell |
Wealth Management Psych Out Behavioral finance is a field that is gaining traction among financial advisors. It is a full-fledged discipline that offers tools serious wealth management firms are using to understand and serve high-net-worth clients. |
