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Editor's note
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Australians have come to expect humility from CEOs. We’d like to think of them as being willing to sacrifice their own interests for the good of shareholders and even the general public. To step down when the company they lead has failed.
But research shows CEOs are products of the competitive world they inhabit. They are more likely to be overconfident and ambitious and are rewarded for it.
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Jenni Henderson
Editor, Business and Economy
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Top story
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Humility is a desirable trait in CEOs.
Dean Lewins/Brendan Espositos/Dan Peled/ Paul Miller/AAP
Mariano L.M. Heyden, Monash University; Mathew Hayward, Monash University
Humble CEOs may be the new prize, but they are in short supply and face distinctive challenges.
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Science + Technology
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Tanveer Zia, Charles Sturt University
Modern cars are computers on wheels. We should make sure they're cyber-secure.
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Kylie Steel, Western Sydney University
The way people move can give us a heads up on their mood or intention: it's called biological motion. Technology called 'point light displays' is helping narrow down what unique movements imply.
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Politics + Society
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Ryan Anderson, James Cook University
The majority of academic research is either non-committal or in favour of the benefits afforded by legalising same-sex marriage.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The North Korean regime has lashed out at Australia, describing its participation in current military exercises with the US and South Korea as 'a suicidal act of inviting disaster'.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Since announcing that the ABS would be responsible for carrying out the same-sex marriage postal survey, Mathias Cormann has had no shortage of questions.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The latest Newspoll contains encouraging news for the 'yes' case in the postal ballot on same-sex marriage.
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Cities
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Laurence Troy, UNSW; Hazel Easthope, UNSW; Laura Crommelin, UNSW
For the first time in Australia, more higher-density housing than detached housing was being built last year. Compact cities have pros and cons, but the downsides fall more heavily on the poor.
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Environment + Energy
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Rackel San Nicolas, University of Melbourne
Cement has a huge greenhouse footprint, largely because the chemical process by which it is made releases carbon dioxide. But there are several different ways for cement to green up its act.
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Arts + Culture
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Stuart Richards, University of Melbourne; Felicity Ford, University of Melbourne
MIFF 2017 made good on its promise to explore new worlds, with timely films on American civil rights, Indigenous music, and queer activism.
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Deborah Pike, University of Notre Dame Australia
Paula Modersohn-Becker painted female nudes unlike anything seen before. A new book brings to life this groundbreaking artist, who died at just 31.
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Health + Medicine
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Sandra Turner, University of Sydney
Men diagnosed with prostate cancer should be given all their options for treatment before they make a decision. In Australia today, this isn't the rule, but the exception.
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Monique Robinson, University of Western Australia
Most pregnant women are aware of the advice to quit smoking, avoid alcohol, and fear soft cheese, but much less is done to avoid stress during pregnancy, despite its harms.
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Featured jobs
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University of Melbourne — Melbourne, Victoria
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Featured events
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