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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. 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. I enjoyed my discussion about all things experimentation. “If

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3 Ways to Make Less Biased Decisions

Harvard Business Review

In March 2013, a U.S. How can we hire, retain, and develop the best people — regardless of race — if we are not even aware of the forces that dominate the choices we make? Second, we have to develop tactics that help us make decisions more consciously. or in a courtroom , it still leads to racial injustice.

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Ethical Consumerism Isn’t Dead, It Just Needs Better Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Now that the general idea of combining ethics and shopping has become a mainstream concept, there is a developing a backlash against the idea that consumers might effect change through their purchasing habits. billion in the US alone in 2013 according to Charity Navigator). Billions are given to charity every year ($ 335.15

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How to Regain the Lost Art of Reflection

Harvard Business Review

Brain science, popularized in Daniel Kahneman’s book , has shown that this type of “slow thinking” is negatively correlated with “fast thinking,” as might be employed when driving a car or solving a simple sum. By the end of 2013, emails were reduced by 60%. Schedule unstructured thinking time.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. It feels like it’s got a little bit of Kahneman and Tversky in it.

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