The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 1, 2022

As Daniel Kahneman illustrates in Noise , AI-based systems can be effective in reducing the variability in decision making, but they nonetheless suffer from the biases introduced by the quality of the data used to train the algorithms.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

Daniel Kahneman. The behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman once noted that “if you follow your intuition, you will more often than not err by misclassifying a random event as systematic. A good hypothesis helps delineate those variables and suggests metrics. Thus, it is difficult either to support or to reject it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Daniel Kahneman, in his book Thinking Fast and Slow , recounts a bit of a planning pickle he and his Israeli Ministry of Education colleagues encountered when estimating how long it would take to complete a high school textbook on judgment and decision making. Too many projects measure success based on two metrics: time and budget.

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Project Kahneman Metrics Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

” Perhaps someone makes an effort to tie analytic metrics to business targets, but in no real depth, and the next item on the meeting agenda swiftly takes over without any action items being set as a result of the review. Match Your Business Goals to Metrics. These metrics should be measurable month over month, year over year.

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Metrics Disaggregation Real Estate Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

Daniel Kahneman has claimed the following as his favorite equation: Success = talent + luck. Kahneman’s implication is that the difference between moderate and great success is mostly luck, not skill. Great success = a little more talent + a lot of luck.

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Career Planning Kahneman Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

As Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman said: “The odds of limiting the constraints of biases in a group setting rise when discussion of them is widespread.” Another place to encourage accountability is in diversity metrics. ” Reorganizing structures and systems can also help reduce the impact of bias.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Since the mandate of the board is to represent shareholders’ interests, shareholder votes stand out as a natural performance metric. The second challenge we face is that we only have that measure of director performance for directors who are actually selected to join the board.

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