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Beware the Winner's Curse : Victories that Can Sink You and Your Company.
2004
F 191 ANA.B 22
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Title
Beware the Winner's Curse : Victories that Can Sink You and Your Company.
Description
xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN
9780195177404 Print
9780199789559 eBook
9780199789559 eBook
Alternate Call Number
F 191 ANA.B
Summary
Beware the Winner's Curse shows how hubris and badly aligned financial incentives lead managersto aggressively pursue victories, and end up worse off as a result. It explores recent disasters in business, sports, and entertainment, and offers concrete steps that managers can take to avoid encountering the curse.
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Beware the Winner's Curse shows how hubris and badly aligned financial incentives lead managersto aggressively pursue victories, and end up worse off as a result. It explores recent disasters in business, sports, and entertainment, and offers concrete steps that managers can take to avoid encountering the curse.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Preface
I: The Winner's Curse
1. Origin of the Winner's Curse
2. The spectrum auction fiasco
II: How Psychological and Market Factors Promote the Winner's Curse
3. Hubris and the urge to merge and acquire
4. The Curse can appear anywhere
5. The mad scramble to acquire optical technology
6. Dot-coms: On top of the world for a while
7. Winners and losers in the securities industry
8. Complacency in the computer industry
III: How Does One Avoid the Winner's Curse?
9. Winning is not everything
10. Avoiding the Winner's Curse
Index
I: The Winner's Curse
1. Origin of the Winner's Curse
2. The spectrum auction fiasco
II: How Psychological and Market Factors Promote the Winner's Curse
3. Hubris and the urge to merge and acquire
4. The Curse can appear anywhere
5. The mad scramble to acquire optical technology
6. Dot-coms: On top of the world for a while
7. Winners and losers in the securities industry
8. Complacency in the computer industry
III: How Does One Avoid the Winner's Curse?
9. Winning is not everything
10. Avoiding the Winner's Curse
Index
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Published
England : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Language
English
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