Special Episode: What’s Wrong with Buybacks?
Are buybacks bad for business? Should firms buy dividends instead, or just not make payouts?In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts and finance professorsJonathan Berk and Ju...
10 Aug 202220min
Ep9 "When is a Business Decision a Mistake?" with Hadley Mullin
As leaders, how do we know when we've made a mistake? Is it as simple as evaluating whether the outcome was good or bad? In this episode of All Else Equal: Making better decisions, hosts and finance p...
12 Juli 202222min
Ep8 "Why Capitalism Works" with John Cochrane
Competitive markets don’t produce the same level of prosperity for everyone, but economist John Cochrane thinks they give us something more important — incentives.In this episode of All Else Equal: Ma...
7 Juni 202231min
Ep7 "Can Investors Effect Social Change?"
How can investors play a part in accomplishing social change? In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, hosts Jules van Binsbergen and Jonathan Berk explore what strategies are avail...
3 Maj 202225min
Ep6 "Can (and Should) Corporations Be Taxed?" with Larry Summers
In this episode, hosts Jules van Binsbergen and Jonathan Berk discuss the complexities of the corporate income tax with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who argues for retaining the tax.Summer...
19 Apr 202227min
Ep5 "Why You Can't 'Agree to Disagree" with Robert Aumann
"The reason people disagree is because they're striving toward a different goal," says mathematician and Nobel Prize winner Robert Aumann. In this episode of All Else Equal, Aumann sits down with fina...
5 Apr 202234min
Ep4 "Making Bad Investments Profitable" with Pete Briger
When it comes to investments, value sometimes resides in unlikely places. Pete Briger, CEO of Fortress Investment Group, specializes in buying bad debt and spinning it into gold.In this episode of All...
22 Mars 202227min
Ep3 “Why Good Stocks Are Not Good Buys” with Cliff Asness
Picking stocks is a famously difficult exercise, not for the faint of heart. So how do investment professionals make decisions about which stocks to buy?In this episode of All Else Equal, professors J...
8 Mars 202228min
