All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions

Today, we’re sharing a special episode from If/Then, the new podcast from our friends at Stanford Graduate School of Business. If/Then is made for curious people looking for answers to challenging questions, featuring experts and thought leaders engaged in cutting-edge research on topics like AI, immigration, sustainability, and power - all framed around an if/then statement that captures the guest’s incisive, sometimes surprising, takeaways. Like this episode, where Stanford Professor of Organizational Behavior Dr. Deborah Gruenfeld answers the question, “If we want to change power systems, then we need to understand the animal forces that drive our behavior.”

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There has been a rising trend in the importance of private debt as a way of financing companies. But what are the differences between private debt and public debt? Why is it increasing in popularity? What advantages does it offer over traditional banking models? In this episode, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen welcome Laurence Gottlieb, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Fundamental Advisors LP, for a discussion about why the private debt markets have exploded.

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Without a residual claimant, who sets the agenda of a non-profit organization like a university?   Who makes sure that the organization follows that agenda rather than serving the interests of the administrators running the organization? Who are the stakeholders in a non-profit organization, and how does the organization prioritize their competing interests. In this episode, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen welcome Daniel Diermeier, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, for a discussion about Non-Profit Organizations, and some key ways in which they operate differently and are able, in some instances to achieve better results than For Profit Organizations.

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Picture a workforce driven not by the promise of a paycheck, but by a shared sense of purpose and the thrill of contributing to something greater than themselves. How can you can ignite a passion in a team that money simply can't buy. In this episode, based on a question from a listener, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen welcome Lieutenant General Thomas Bostick, was the 53rd Chief of Engineers of the United States Army and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for a discussion about Non-Monetary Incentives, and how they function in the military. 

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Today, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen discuss five common mistakes financial decision-makers often make. There is much misinformation and bad advice in financial markets. In this episode, Jonathan and Jules discuss strategies for avoiding bad advice and making better decisions.

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For the end of the year, Jules and Jonathan are taking some well-deserved time off, and wanted to rerun a past episode they love for the new audience who has joined since then.

Imagine being able to see through all the layers of corporate decision-making to uncover whether businesses should prioritize profits for shareholders or the well-being of a wider community. In this episode, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen are joined by Alex Edmans, professor of finance at the London Business School, as they wade through the murky waters of balancing diverse interests, addressing externalities such as environmental impacts, and whether government intervention or corporate ethics should lead the charge. It's an exploration of the potential for businesses to harness their unique strengths for the greater good, while navigating the delicate balance of power between corporate and governmental roles in shaping society.

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For the end of the year, Jules and Jonathan are taking some well-deserved time off, and wanted to rerun a past episode they love for the new audience who has joined since then.

Is it possible to unravel the paradox of disagreement in rational decision-making? How should we dissolve discord? In this episode, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen are joined by Robert Aumann, mathematician, professor, and Nobel Prize winner, as they discuss acknowledging errors and embracing diverse viewpoints, with stories of Nobel Prize-winning luminaries showing the importance of evolving one's understanding in light of new evidence.

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For the end of the year, Jules and Jonathan are taking some well-deserved time off, and wanted to re-present a past episode they love for the new audience who has joined since then.

Investing in stocks isn’t just prowess in numbers but a mental marathon as well. But prowess in numbers isn't all there is; this episode also explores the mental marathon of investment. It's a master class in economic acumen that will challenge the way you see the numbers, with the promise to elevate your understanding of the intricate dance between buyer and seller dynamics. In this episode, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen are joined by Cliff Asness, co-founder of AQR Capital Management, as they move beyond the common mantras of investment strategies to confront the harsh market realities and identify what truly makes a stock undervalued or overvalued.

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What happens when universities and step off the sidelines and take a stance on contentious issues? Are they boarding a roller coaster that they can’t ever get off? In this episode, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen welcome John Etchemendy, former Provost of Stanford University, for a discussion about Institutional Neutrality, and the long-term unseen costs of any stance institutions elect to take. 

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It turns out your airline ticket prices might be affected by common ownership in mutual and index funds, but how? In this episode, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen welcome Martin Schmalz, Professor of Finance and Economics at Oxford Saïd and Academic Area Head for the FAME faculty group (Finance, Accounting, Managerial Science, and Economics) for a discussion about Common Ownership, and the unseen power it holds in asset management for the corporate world. 

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• Common Ownership, Competition and Top Management Incentives
• Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership

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What accounts for the recent growth of private firms? In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen welcome Eric Zinterhofer, Founder of Searchlight Capital Partners, to discuss the fundamental tradeoff between Public Equity and Private Equity, and how having a manager with more skin in the game creates greater returns, but at a cost of greater risk.  

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In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen discuss the second half of the retirement equation, after going over how much you need to save, they now elaborate on how to think about investing what you have saved, and what theories make for optimizing your own personal risk exposure.   They explain the importance of holding a diversified portfolio and tailoring the overall risk of that portfolio to you own personal needs.   

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With recent strikes making big news, what are the complexities at hand when Unions become involved in the labor force? Some are well known but other effects, both good and bad, have been less obvious. Exact data can be hard to discern, but In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen talk with Larry Katz of Harvard University about how labor unions have functioned in the past, the current union landscape with an ongoing UAW strike in Detroit, and what impacts and changes they think will happen in the future as technology disrupts labor markets in different ways. 

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How much are you supposed to save for retirement and how do you get there? What is the different advice for people with different plans or risk tolerances?In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen discuss the ins and outs of long term investing, and how to make a working retirement plan that will work for you.

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Are you breaking some basic rules of communication without knowing it? What are the things you can start doing right now to communicate better? In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen are joined by Matt Abrahams, lecturer at Stanford GSB, and host of the highly influential podcast Think Fast, Talk Smart for a discussion about becoming a more effective communicator and presenter. 

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A lot has been written and said about CEOs and their compensation, but who are they really and how did they get there? According to the data, what are the most likely paths to become one? In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen are joined by Dirk Jenter, Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics, for a fascinating discussion of CEOs, including the surprising truths about who rises to the rank of CEO and from where, as well as exploring the issue of CEO pay, and how it could be justified. 

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Humans respond to incentives, and so incentives predict behavior and sometimes the behavior can be detrimental. In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen discuss a range of less obvious examples of how incentives produce negative externalities — long legal contracts, negative news stories, dumb traffic lights, overly pessimistic disaster prediction and other examples. 

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The speed at which AI is getting smarter is on everybody's mind these days. In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen discuss with Stanford Professor Michal Kosinski what we should expect from the coming wave of AI technology, how it relates to the research on "Theory of Mind" and whether and how it potentially could be regulated.

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When COVID-19 shut down the world economy in 2020 many wondered where it had begun and why the pandemic had even started in the first place. In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen discuss with Matt Ridley (biologist and author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19) about the possible origins of the coronavirus pandemic, and the reasons that the thinking on what the origin is has changed over time.

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Financial bubbles are episodes where the value of something (like stocks, tulips or cryptocurrency) shoots up very rapidly, but then peaks and comes crashing down. The problem has never been seeing them in hindsight, but rather identifying one while in the middle of it. In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen discuss with Will Goetzmann (Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies at the Yale School of Management how to identify bubbles and which key historical bubbles have shaped our thinking about them.

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