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10 Books You Should Read This Summer

Leading Blog

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success by Ron Friedman. By reverse engineering what has worked for others, we can unlock patterns that will work in our own lives. Wherever there is judgment, there is noise.

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business Review

This study uses two rounds of interviewing to identify what the Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes as the “inside view” and the “outside view” of the phenomenon. imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S. failure to develop and communicate business strategies effectively.

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An Exercise to Get Your Team Thinking Differently About the Future

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow , observed that decision makers get stuck in a memory loop and can only predict the future as a reflection of the past. Crowd sourcing will become a fundamental R&D engine.

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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. It feels like it’s got a little bit of Kahneman and Tversky in it. He draws on an engineering literature called robust optimal control.

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