Aiyesha Dey

Aiyesha Dey, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, explores the hidden risks of CEO hiring in this engaging conversation. She argues that conventional metrics fail to capture critical character traits that could predict future misconduct. Dey discusses how executives' lifestyle choices, like materialism and minor legal infractions, can foreshadow serious ethical breaches. By shifting focus to personal behavior, she suggests, boards can make better hiring decisions to prevent corporate malfeasance.