Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 1, 2012
The basic concept , first presented by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman and his partner Amos Tversky in an influential 1979 paper, is that human beings are astonishingly bad at estimating how long it will take to complete tasks. The average actual cost? But the basic pattern continues.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 11, 2013
On the surface, these results don't appear to synch with those reported by Daniel Kahneman, Jack L. In a Canadian telephone survey, Kahneman et al. There are many potential explanations for these seemingly contradictory results, including different time periods (1986 vs. 2010), geographies (Canada vs. U.S.),
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. In parallel, it reduced its fixed costs by restructuring its industrial footprint and overhead structure; increasing sales, marketing, and R&D expenditures in targeted areas; and dramatically reducing working capital.
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