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Closeup: Economics Nobel winner Bengt Holmström

For 13 years Holmström sat on the board of Finland's Nokia, once the world's top mobile phone maker. But Nokia failed to appreciate the disruptive significance of the smartphone revolution and was too focused on short-term success.

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