First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Serial Innovators: Firms That Change the World Claudio Feser John Wiley & Sons (2012) How and why continuous innovation and adaptation can help an organization “live” longer What we have here is a “hybrid” narrative that develops on two separate but interdependent levels: a fictional account that focuses on Carl Berger (CEO of American Health [.]. (..)

Innovation 80

Innovation Review Books CEO 80

LDRLB

JANUARY 6, 2012

In that spirit, we’ve compiled 12 books we feel every leader or aspiring leader should commit to read, or re-read in 2012. Do not let 2012 pass without reading this book. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. The new year is a great time to reflect and set goals to best leverage the clean slate we all share.

Collins 141

Collins Cialdini Kahneman Constraint 141

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

We used a machine learning method called gradient boosting , and then evaluated the results using a separate test dataset of directors who joined firms between 2012 to 2014 who the algorithm did not observe during this “training period.” corporations between 2000 and 2011.

Company 9

Company Kahneman Learning-by-Doing CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

First developed by Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979, the planning fallacy simply states that people will consistently underestimate how long a task will take even when they have experience with similar tasks taking longer than expected. Then there's the testing. This is a terrific example the planning fallacy at work.

Tversky 8

Tversky Kahneman Budgeting Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

I'll Have Another will try to enter the pantheon of horseracing by winning the Belmont Stakes , the final leg of the Triple Crown, on Saturday night (June 9, 2012). Daniel Kahneman , a renowned psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, developed this concept in the 1970s along with his collaborator, Amos Tversky.

Beyer 14

Beyer Tversky Price Kahneman 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Two years later, in 2002, the co-leader of that invasion, Princeton psychology professor Daniel Kahneman, won an economics Nobel (the other co-leader, Amos Tversky, had died in 1996). Lazear acknowledged one such indicator in his article — the invasion of economics by psychological teachings about cognitive bias.

Tversky 11

Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

I'll Have Another will try to enter the pantheon of horseracing by winning the Belmont Stakes , the final leg of the Triple Crown, on Saturday night (June 9, 2012). Daniel Kahneman , a renowned psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, developed this concept in the 1970s along with his collaborator, Amos Tversky.

Beyer 10

Beyer Tversky Price Kahneman 10