Published on: 2025-06-13 00:01:44
90 Pages Posted: 27 May 2025 Date Written: May 01, 2025 Abstract We examine how selection bias in CEO promotion amplifies risk-taking, using prenatal exposure to pollution as an exogenous shock to individual risk preferences. CEOs born in future Superfund sites are more likely to be promoted internally, suggesting firms reward observed success without recognizing underlying risk tolerance. These "Superfund CEOs" excel in internal roles but pursue riskier external policies once promoted-leadin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 01:19:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust The big picture: Traditionally, VCs have poured money into early-stage startups, betting on unproven technology and the promise of disruption. But a new strategy has been seen taking hold recently, one that blends the playbooks of venture capital and private equity: acquiring established businesses and supercharging them with artificial intelligence. This approach is gaining momentum among top firm
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 17:27:09
Klarna is synonymous with the "buy now, pay later" trend of making a purchase and deferring payment until the end of the month or paying over interest-free monthly installments. The U.K. government on Monday laid out proposals to bring short-term loans under formal rules as it looks to clamp down on the "wild west" of the buy now, pay later sector. Fintech firms like Klarna and Block's Afterpay have flourished by offering interest-free financing on everything from fashion and gadgets to food d
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-30 16:08:55
Tesla today denied a report that its board contacted executive search firms to find a replacement for CEO Elon Musk. The Wall Street Journal reported last night that about a month ago, "Tesla's board got serious about looking for Musk's successor" and that board "members reached out to several executive search firms to work on a formal process for finding Tesla's next chief executive." Tesla's official X account then posted a statement attributed to board chairperson Robyn Denholm saying that "
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-04 08:37:04
LONDON — Britain on Tuesday published draft legislation for the cryptocurrency industry, touting greater collaboration with the U.S. as it looks to regulate the wild world of digital assets. Speaking at a fintech event Tuesday, U.K. Finance Minister Rachel Reeves announced plans for a "comprehensive regulatory regime for crypto assets," adding that the proposals would aim to make the country a "world leader in digital assets." The rules will bring crypto exchanges, dealers and agents into the
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60 Pages Posted: 21 Nov 2024 Date Written: July 23, 2024 Abstract We study the tax payment and innovation consequences of limiting the tax deductibility of research and development ("R&D") expenditures. Beginning in 2022, U.S. companies are required to capitalize and amortize R&D rather than immediately deduct these expenditures. We utilize variation in U.S. firms' fiscal year ends to test the effects of the R&D tax change in a difference-indifferences framework. We first document that affect
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-17 21:03:04
“Why are you solving this problem from first principles? You should’ve used ChatGPT to help you.” A consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the “Big 3s” in the sector, recounted their manager’s reaction when they turned in a preliminary report on a certain topic a few months ago. “The funniest part is that I had used ChatGPT to solve the problem. I just hadn’t told my manager,” they said, not wanting to be named as they weren’t authorised to speak with the media. Welcome to managem
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-16 05:30:54
Are there any ethical VC funds? This is a genuine question. It feels like the majority of venture firms can rationalise away their position as doing good for the world but when you start to dig into it, the sole goal is making money and who they make money for isn't always the most righteous of people or entities. Even then many of the individuals at firms can be questionable, involved in scandals. And the things invested in, while there can be a thematic preference, often everything is thrown o
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