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Booknotes: 14 Ideas from The Power of Something Stupid

Leading Blog

Author Richie Norton explains that life-changing ideas are often tragically mislabeled stupid. Wouldn''t it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future.

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Identifying the Biases Behind Your Bad Decisions

Harvard Business Review

In a recent paper , scholars Ryan Buell and Mike Norton (both at Harvard Business School) studied ways in which service organizations could improve customer satisfaction. In one of their studies, Buell and Norton created a fictitious travel website and asked people to search for a flight from Boston to Los Angeles.

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How Self-Service Kiosks Are Changing Customer Behavior

Harvard Business Review

I talked with Ryan Buell , an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, who studies the intersection of operations and customer behavior. After you enter your preferred travel details and click submit, you see the different websites that it’s searching and a running tally of the best rates found so far.