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The Business Lessons of the Belmont Stakes

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman , a renowned psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, developed this concept in the 1970s along with his collaborator, Amos Tversky. Win or lose, I'll Have Another's situation provides useful lessons about business and markets. The first lesson is about adopting the inside versus the outside view.

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The Business Lessons of the Belmont Stakes

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman , a renowned psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, developed this concept in the 1970s along with his collaborator, Amos Tversky. Win or lose, I'll Have Another's situation provides useful lessons about business and markets. The first lesson is about adopting the inside versus the outside view.

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Keep Experts on Tap, Not on Top

Harvard Business Review

Those who see the world probabilistically seem to better navigate volatile environments because they are wired to embrace uncertainty. The psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky demonstrated quite convincingly that we human beings are not the model-optimizing "rational" actors that many economists historically believed we are.