Fixing the Game

THREE

RESTORING EXECUTIVE AUTHENTICITY

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou cans’t not then be false to any man.

—William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Management Science is a prestigious top-tier academic journal, the kind in which business academics strive to be published, especially as they work toward gaining tenure. A typical issue might feature original research in behavioral economics, competitive dynamics, or game theory. As with other top-tier journals, the articles tend to be written in dense “academese,” and require a rich background in statistics and mathematics to be understood. With a paid circulation of just five thousand, its publication doesn’t typically cause much of a stir outside the walls of business ...