Why do smart people make irrational investment decisions? In our 50th episode, returning guest Professor Alex Edmans explores the psychological biases that shape our decisions, from overconfidence and confirmation bias to our tendency to overreact or underreact to new information. Drawing on his latest book, The Madness of Markets, Alex explains how these biases affect financial markets and business decisions, and how we can make better decisions by questioning our assumptions.

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• Find out more about Alex and his work here
• Read Alex’s books, including The Madness of Markets, here
• Watch Alex’s TEDx Talk, The Social Responsibility of Business here
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This podcast is brought to you by Re:Co, a tech-powered advisory company helping private market investors pursue sustainability objectives and value creation in tandem.

Produced by Chris Attaway

Artwork by Harriet Richardson

Music by Cody Martin

Dr. Johannes Lenhard is CEO of Reframe Venture, a nonprofit working with 200 VC and PE funds and 120 LPs on responsible investment integration. He is also an affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge, where he earned his PhD in anthropology. In this episode, he joins Jenn to ask whether the private markets industry is doing its due diligence on AI and whether the lessons learned from ESG over the past decade can help it move faster this time.

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• Follow Johannes on LinkedIn here
• Find out more about Reframe Venture here
• Access the Reframe Venture AI governance due diligence questions here
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This podcast is brought to you by Re:Co, a tech-powered advisory company helping private market investors pursue sustainability objectives and value creation in tandem.

Produced by Chris Attaway

Artwork by Harriet Richardson

Music by Cody Martin

Jaycee Pribulsky is Partner and Chief Sustainability Officer at Apollo, where she oversees the firm's sustainability efforts. Before joining Apollo, she was Chief Sustainability Officer at Nike, and earlier in her career held roles at Bloomberg, Citi and the White House. In this episode, she joins Jenn to make the case that the sustainability field has reached a turning point where aspiration alone is no longer enough and operational excellence is essential.

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Find out more about Apollo here

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Jaycee’s book recommendation: The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge

Click here for the episode web page. This episode is also available on YouTube.

For more insights straight to your inbox subscribe to the Future in Sight newsletter, and follow us on LinkedIn

This podcast is brought to you by Re:Co, a tech-powered advisory company helping private market investors pursue sustainability objectives and value creation in tandem.

Produced by Chris Attaway

Artwork by Harriet Richardson

Music by Cody Martin