Beware the Winner's Curse: Victories That Can Sink You and Your Company - Hardcover

Anandalingam, G.; Lucas, Henry C. Jr.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195177401 ISBN 13: 9780195177404

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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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Review:

In this book, the authors have used an interesting approach in teaching some of the lessons learned in the technology downturn of the early twenty-first century. Beware the Winner's Curse gives us alternative ways of thinking of asset values before we overpay for these assets (Joseph J. Bonocore, President & CEO, Impresa Technologies, Inc.)

Synopsis:

Shows how badly aligned financial incentives lead managers to aggressively pursue victories, and end up worse off as a result. This book explores the various disasters in business, sports, and entertainment, and offers steps that managers can take to avoid encountering the curse.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0195177401
• ISBN 13: 9780195177404
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 260