Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

Daniel Kahneman. When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. The employee was forbidden to work on the project. It was immediately launched.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

This idea of prospect theory, developed by Tversky and Kahneman and reported in a classic 1979 article (for which the Nobel prize was awarded) demonstrated that individuals do not make decisions rationally by selecting options with the highest expected value, because they are risk-averse and 'losses loom larger than gains.'.

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Kahneman Tversky Company Innovation 14

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. The first question to answer is how much of the success in a given field, or for a given project, is due to chance.

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Career Planning Kahneman Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

As soon as you step into a top position at a company that needs to significantly improve the way it operates, there’s pressure to get off to a quick start. HBR Staff/Clare Jackson/EyeEm/Getty Images. Yet the best way to succeed, paradoxically, is to slow things down. How to Slow Down in a High-Speed Job.

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Supply Chain CEO Kahneman Self-aware 11