Tanveer Naseer
MARCH 1, 2016
The idea of cognitive biases was introduced by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in the early 1970s. Tversky and Kahneman also showed that they could predict quite accurately when people would act irrationally, because the irrational behavior was due to measurable cognitive biases. You can also follow him on Twitter: @MattTenney1.
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 same challenge makes it difficult for companies to escape the innovator's dilemma.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
The company I co-founded is now ten years old. I still find these presentations exhausting in a way that I never find studying an income statement, interviewing a company’s management, or building an earnings’ forecast tiring. But there have also been surprises. But it’s also exhilarating.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 31, 2011
These biases arise from what Kahneman and his long-time research partner Amos Tversky call framing. Too often, propositions are based around what the company wants to offer rather than what customers genuinely need and value. Framing defines the way we approach problems or seek to achieve objectives.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 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. This is called the inside view. The outside view, in contrast, considers the problem as an instance of a larger reference class.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 9, 2012
Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky attributed this tendency to what they called the "availability" heuristic (rule of thumb): our minds give inordinately heavy weighting to the most readily available/recent/vivid data and experiences. By May 2009, the company was being valued at $10 billion.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 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. This is called the inside view. The outside view, in contrast, considers the problem as an instance of a larger reference class.
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