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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

Strikingly, the executives involved in these cases did not make the classic decision-making errors that have been so well documented in the fields of behavioral decision research, behavioral economics, and behavioral finance. As it turns out, this type of failure is quite common.

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Instinct Can Beat Analytical Thinking

Harvard Business Review

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. What’s the problem with the way that turkey approached risk management?