Developing Executive Trust Eugene Soltes shared research showing how certain investors spend a lot of time in private meetings with corporate executives—and how this gives the investors an unfair advantage in spite of Federal regulations that are supposed to level the investment playing field.
In short private meetings with CEOs apparently led to smarter trades according to the findings of a study by Soltes an assistant professor at HBS and David Solomon a professor at the USC Marshall School of Business. To conduct the research the duo obtained investor Ukraine Mobile Number List meeting records from a mid cap company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the condition that they would not reveal the firm s identity in their paper. of good faith on the part of the company which was crucial for the study. It s really about developing a relationship said Soltes whose research also has included corresponding with Stephen Richards the former global head of Computer Associates while Richards was doing time in prison for securities fraud.
The correspondence led to the case study A Letter From Prison. Listening To The Field Ethan Bernstein discussed the field research that led to an intriguing conclusion In a curious phenomenon dubbed the Transparency Paradox he found that watching your employees less closely at work might yield more transparency at your organization. In a world obsessed with transparency I m becoming increasingly obsessed with how it is and isn t productive said Bernstein an assistant professor.