Adam Davidson recently wrote “Making Choices in the Age of Information Overload,” for the New York Times magazine where he explained how consumer choices have changed in the Information Age. With so much data about a potential purchase—from price comparisons to reviews by ostensibly objective consumers—we are drowning in a sea of information. Consumers often […]
A superb column over the weekend by the personal investing columnist in the Wall Street Journal, Jason Zweig, “Polishing the Dimon Principle,” struck a chord or two with us because of what it said about human knowledge and the occasional lack thereof. Zweig was advising investors not to look to J.P.Morgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon […]
Cardozo Law School recently hosted a multi-disciplinary conference on privacy and the Internet, “Anonymity and Identity in the Information Age.” Lawyers, computer scientists and public health advocates wrestled with the challenges of protecting personal information at a time when so much data is easily obtainable online. There were various tips and suggestions beyond merely mastering […]
Whether one spouse hides money from the other during a portion of their marriage (and the Wall Street Journal reported this week in Veronica Dagher’s article, “Hiding Money From Your Spouse Has Gotten a Lot Harder,” that 58% of spouses say they do), the serious attempt to track it down will almost always come in […]
There are plenty of excited articles around these days about the new JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups ) Act and the effect this new law will have on the marketing of hedge funds. In brief, it’s now going to be easier for hedge funds to market themselves to the general public. If previously hedge funds […]
Context matters. We know this instinctively, and yet somehow we forget. We still tend to assume that facts live in their own separate bubbles. So when we research and analyze, we warily keep our findings in separate categories—information on person A separate from information on person B, which are both separate from facts uncovered about […]
One of our most closely-guarded pieces of personal information, we nonetheless are obliged to divulge our Social Security numbers several times a year. You want a job? Hand it over. A client once approached us to see whether we could run a quick background check on domestic helper he was thinking of employing. She cheerfully […]
We have written extensively about the importance of good interview skills, in our blog entries “What Greg Smith and Goldman Sachs Tell Us About Investigations” and “Hiring Due Diligence Should Include an Attitude Check.” Professionals whose work depends on their ability to interview well—investigators, journalists, lawyers, doctors—know that it’s an art, honed by a keen […]
If it seems like every other day there is a new story about someone who was fired for something they posted on social media, that’s because there is. There seems to be no shortage of cautionary tales about people who have yet to comprehend the impact their social media activities may have on their livelihood. […]
Former Goldman Sachs employee Greg Smith caused quite a stir when he took to the New York Times op-ed page to explain why he was leaving Goldman Sachs after 12 years. Smith, who the Times identified as a London-based executive director for Goldman heading the firm’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle […]
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