CEO charisma biases financial analysts, can hurt investors, says study in INFORMS journal

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 12:14 in Mathematics & Economics

Projecting the charisma of a newly hired Chief Executive Officer often leads financial analysts to make crucial errors in forecasting the company's future performance, according to a new study in the current issue of Organization Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®). Link:  http://www.informs.org

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