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Do you fit the management stereotype?

Chartered Management Institute

Probably the best known experiment into representativeness heuristics was conducted by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in the 70's. engineering. So do you fit the stereotype of a great manager? Adi Gaskell is a manager at the Process Excellence Network. As it's Friday, and I'm a fun kinda guy, why don't you play along?

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Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China

Harvard Business Review

“Death by a Thousand Cuts” Based on a comprehensive five-year study, my new research paper, published in the Academy of Management Discoveries this year, systematically identifies the reasons behind the failures of major Western digital firms in China. poor management of relations with Chinese regulators and the government.

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The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Harvard Business Review

By applying tougher criteria we can tap into our brain's sophisticated search engine. One particularly interesting study was conducted by Kahneman, Knetsch and Thaler (published here ) where consumption objects (e.g. then we will be able to eliminate the clutter and have space for something better.

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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. It feels like it’s got a little bit of Kahneman and Tversky in it.

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