SMU researcher wins an Ig Nobel prize for 'improbable research'

SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business Assistant Professor of Finance Gennaro Bernil has won the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize, becoming the only Singapore-based researcher on this year’s list of 10 winners. Assistant Professor Bernile clinched a prize in the Management category for his research on the influence of early-life disasters on the behaviour of chief executive officers, in which he found that many business leaders who experienced natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, or wildfires, developed a fondness for risk-taking in their childhood, if the disasters had no dire personal consequences for them