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James Surowiecki: Out of Our Control

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Partner:: New Yorker
Location:: Directors Guild Theatre
New York, NY
Event Date:: 10.02.11
Speaker:: James Surowiecki
Tags:: finance

Summary: JAMES SUROWIECKI: OUT OF CONTROL: PLAYING WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

James Surowiecki has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2000 and writes the magazine’s Financial Page. He is the author of The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations.

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James Surowiecki

James Surowiecki has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2000 and writes the magazine's Financial Page. His book, "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations," was published in 2004.

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01.: Opening Remarks

01 min 08 sec

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02.: Management Failures at Hewlett-Packard

03 min 10 sec

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03.: The 'Principal-Agent Problem'

04 min 15 sec

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04.: Examples of Principal-Agent Problems

05 min 02 sec

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05.: Executives and the Rise of Professional Management

03 min 47 sec

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06.: The Increasing Frequency of Principal-Agent Problems

06 min 13 sec

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07.: The Principal-Agent Problem Around Pensions

03 min 51 sec

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08.: The Principal-Agent Problem in Corporate America

05 min 46 sec

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09.: The Principal-Agent Problem on Wall St.

02 min 49 sec

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10.: The Role of Misplaced Incentives in the Financial Crisis

04 min 41 sec

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11.: The Lack of Principal-Agent Problems in the Consumer Economy

05 min 26 sec

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12.: Why People Are Susceptible to Principal-Agent Problems

05 min 55 sec

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13.: The Effects of Increasing Transparency

05 min 48 sec

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14.: The Effects of Changing Compensation

09 min 56 sec

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15.: Solving the Principal-Agent Problem

04 min 09 sec

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16.: Q & A

00 min 19 sec

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17.: Q1: Thoughts on Meg Whitman as HP CEO

02 min 23 sec

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18.: Q2: Fiduciary Rule/Venture Capital Solutions

02 min 34 sec

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19.: Q3: The Effect of Paying Investors Hourly

02 min 47 sec

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20.: Q4: Making Banks into Partnerships/Thoughts on Too Big to Fail

04 min 07 sec

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21.: Q5: What Investors Should Look For

03 min 00 sec

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22.: Q6: Using Restricted Stock as Compensation

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Why Wall Street’s Imploding and Main Street’s Improving

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James Suroweicki discusses a "dramatic difference" between service industries where principal-agent conflicts are pervasive, and industries focussed on manufactured goods. In the former, Surowiecki notes, agents are becoming extremely wealthy; in the latter, consumers are "spending less and getting more."
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The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations

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New Yorker, The: U.S. weekly magazine, famous for its varied literary fare and humour. It was founded in 1925 by Harold Ross, who was its editor until 1951. Initially focused on New York City's amusements and social and cultural life, it gradually acquired a broader scope, encompassing literature, current affairs, and other topics. Aimed at a sophisticated, liberal audience, it became renowned for its short fiction, cartoons, major (occasionally book-length) nonfiction pieces, and detailed reviews in the arts. It was sold in 1985 to Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr. (see Newhouse family). Since Ross, its editors have been William Shawn (1952–87), Robert Gottlieb (1987–92), Tina Brown (1992–98), and David Remnick (from 1998).; New Yorker, The on britannica.com

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