Mind Online: The University of ChicagoMind Online presents a collection of thought-provoking samples from the University's intellectual life, both past and present. Critical thinking and lively debate are at the center of a Chicago education and continue to engage alumni after they leave campus.Discretion Meets Disclosure- (Found September 17, 2008 ) It has long been suspected that fear of competition spurs managers to hide better-than-average business unit profit performance. However, a new study instead finds evidence that fear of increased oversight leads managers to hide less-than-average business unit performance.Research at ChicagoDownload the QuickTime fileDownload the MP3 filehttp://mindonline.uchicago.edu/item.php?id=260 Nudge: A Conversation with the Authors- (Found September 17, 2008 ) Thaler and Sunstein reminisce at their favorite Hyde Park lunch spot, Noodles, where they say they did some of their best work on the book. Noodles was so important to the creative process, it even made the acknowledgments. The two talk about what each brought to the project, the origin of the elephants on the book cover, their fear of forms, and their hopes for a new political consensus in the country.Research at ChicagoDownload the QuickTime fileDownload the MP3 filehttp://mindonline.uchicago.edu/item.php?id=266 Nudge: An Overview- (Found September 17, 2008 ) University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Professor Richard Thaler gives an overview of his new book: "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness." He explains what nudges are and gives a few examples of how they can be useful.Research at ChicagoDownload the QuickTime fileDownload the MP3 filehttp://mindonline.uchicago.edu/item.php?id=265 Long-Term Consumption: A Microeconomic Approach to Studying Asset Pricing- (Found September 17, 2008 ) A fundamental economic question is the tradeoff between investment and consumption and how it determines asset prices in the macroeconomy. New research studies the relationship between consumption and asset prices using microeconomic data.Research at ChicagoDownload the QuickTime fileDownload the MP3 filehttp://mindonline.uchicago.edu/item.php?id=264 Transparency and Political Relationships- (Found September 17, 2008 ) Since the 1990s, foreign capital has become an increasingly important source of financing for emerging market firms. Because companies that access global capital markets receive substantial benefits, it is difficult to understand why so few firms take advantage of foreign capital markets.Research at ChicagoDownload the QuickTime fileDownload the MP3 filehttp://mindonline.uchicago.edu/item.php?id=263 Insider Trading and Future Earnings- (Found September 17, 2008 ) Even though insider trading laws have become stricter over time, insiders are still trading their company's stock and making money from trades. New research examines how insiders limit trading their company's stock for fear of legal repercussions when future earnings reports are likely to become extremely positive or negative.Research at ChicagoDownload the QuickTime fileDownload the MP3 filehttp://mindonline.uchicago.edu/item.php?id=261 The Secret Life of Shells: Looking into the ecological past- (Found September 17, 2008 ) Susan Kidwell, William Rainey Harper Professor in Geophysical Sciences, discusses a new tool for measuring human impact on marine ecosystems. By collecting data on the living organisms and the skeletal remains of those same organisms scientists can perform what is called a live-dead analysis. Large discrepancies in the ratio of living and dead organisms correlate with radical changes in the ecosystem.Research at ChicagoDownload the QuickTime fileDownload the MP3 filehttp://mindonline.uchicago.edu/item.php?id=267 The Civic Knowledge Project Remembers 1942-3- (Found September 17, 2008 ) The Civic Knowledge Project Remembers 1942-43--A documentary that recaptures the early history of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) on the south side of Chicago. CORE co-founders James Robinson and George Houser revisit some of the sites of their early nonviolent protest activities, including the former site of the Jack Spratt Coffee House, at 47th and Kimbark, where they staged one of the first non violent sit ins on behalf of civil rights in American history.Download the QuickTime filehttp://mindonline.uchicago.edu/item.php?id=268 Gobero: An Interdisciplinary Discovery- (Found September 17, 2008 ) Paul Sereno, Professor in Organismal Biology & Anatomy, discusses an unexpected discovery he made while searching for dinosaur fossils in the Sahara desert in 2000. Sereno and his team uncovered a massive graveyard containing over 200 burials. By combining techniques from paleontology and archeology, the team was able to preserve a site that might otherwise have been lost.Research at ChicagoDownload the QuickTime fileDownload the MP3 filehttp://mindonline.uchicago.edu/item.php?id=269 Gobero: Preparing the Triple Burial- (Found September 17, 2008 ) One of the most exquisite discoveries from Gobero is a triple burial which preserved an adult woman interred with two young children. The bodies were buried with their arms around each other and were holding hands. Paul Sereno's vision was to create something unique that would enable people to 1) view the burial from both sides and 2) preserve all of the scientific information in place: from the tiniest bones to the original position of the artifacts. He met with his staff at the University of..http://mindonline.uchicago.edu/item.php?id=270 |