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HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Making Smart Decisions: A book review by Bob Morris

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions Various Contributors with Editors of Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers — and how to make better ones This is one in a series of volumes that anthologizes what the editors of the Harvard Business Review consider [.].

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

Daniel Kahneman. And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. We are too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.”

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3 Ways to Make Less Biased Decisions

Harvard Business Review

In March 2013, a U.S. Similar trends have been identified in virtually every aspect of the talent management system. It not only results in lack of equity in organizations, but in poor talent management practices. or in a courtroom , it still leads to racial injustice. ” “Does it remind you of somebody you know?

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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. But some CEOs have managed to resist these tendencies.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. Absolutely.

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