Monday, August 30, 2010
Research may help identify CEO lies
Jaded investors have always suspected certain CEOs provide something less than the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when they pick up the phone for their quarterly conference calls with analysts and investors.
Their suspicions are only confirmed -- if they are ever confirmed -- months later when the real story finds the light of day, usually because of regulatory scrutiny or a corporate confession.
But imagine if there was a way for those listening in to predict whether a CEO or other executives on the call were lying.
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