Thursday, February 14, 2008

Harvard Business Review

The Harvard Business Review is the featured journal from the Goodwin Library this week. The March issue has an article entitled "Survival of the Richest." According to this article, "in financial markets, as in many human endeavors, there’s a battle between reason and madness. On one side are the disciples of the efficient-markets hypothesis: the notion that markets fully, accurately, and instantaneously incorporate all relevant information into prices. These adherents assume that market participants are rational, always acting in their own interest and making mathematically optimal decisions. On the other side are the champions of behavioral economics: a younger discipline that points to bubbles, crashes, panics, manias, and other distinctly unreasonable phenomena as evidence of irrationality." Readers also recommend these articles:
Women and the Labyrinth of Leadership · Executive Summary
Mastering the Management System · Executive Summary
The Institutional Yes · Executive Summary
The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy · Executive Summary
Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time · Executive Summary

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