About Paul Kedrosky
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| Dr. Kedrosky is currently the Executive Director of the William J. von Liebig Center in San Diego, California. Using an innovative seed capital program, the Center catalyzes the commercialization of technologies from the internationally-ranked University of California, San Diego. Dr. Kedrosky is also a venture investor with Ventures West, Canada's largest institutional venture capital firm, where he is most active in consumer technologies and software. He is currently on the board of Marqui Corporation, a marketing automation software company. |
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Privacy, Investing Alpha, and the CEO's Mother-in-Law
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Much of investing is a search for hard-to-get data that can give you an edge, or alpha. That quest for alpha via better data is one of the themes of my Money:Tech 2008 conference, and it is the topic of an unusual and fascinating article in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal.
The gist: A new stream of financial research ties performance in public companies to increasingly personal data about CEOs and executives, from recent mega-mansion purchases, to size of CEO pictures in reports, to deaths in the family. All of these studies purport to show statistically significant impacts from this personal information, which is leading, understandably to a growing debate -- one that I had planned to highlight in the M:T conference program next year.
As an aside, I can't help but point out that the "death" paper showed that deaths in the immediate family led to poorer performance, with one exception:
Only a mother-in-law's death was correlated with an upturn, and it was too small to be statistically significant. Prof. Wolfenzon says they included the mother-in-law as a rationality check.
"It's a little bit funny that the mother-in-law dying doesn't distract the CEO," he said -- hastening to add that his own mother-in-law is vitally important to his productivity: "As we speak, she's taking care of my kids."
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