Leading Blog

JULY 4, 2021

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Gladwell asks, “How is it that, sometimes, for any number of unexpected and random reasons, technology slips away from its intended path?” Wherever there is judgment, there is noise. It is variability in judgments that should be identical.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 5, 2022

Recently the World Economic Forum pondered whether organizations should be hiring an AI Ethics Officer to ensure that the algorithms being developed made fair and ethical decisions. “This could deepen existing structural injustices, skew power balances further, threaten human rights and limit access to resources and information.”

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Daniel Kahneman. Technology has connected more people in more places at more times than ever before. Is it possible to develop empathy? The not so good news is that cognitive empathy needs to be developed. A key to developing curiosity is inquiry. I recently spoke with him about his work. Oprah Winfrey.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

A number of people noted that Nobel prize-winner Daniel Kahneman’s work, nicely summarized in his 2011 book Thinking Fast and Slow , influenced their thinking a great deal. What’s really interesting, though, is that the two of them ended up in complete agreement about the conditions required for good intuition to develop.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in economics for his work on cognitive biases, points out in an HBR article that a team that has fallen in love with its theories may unconsciously ignore or reject contradictory evidence, place too much weight on one piece of data, or make faulty comparisons to another business case that suits its bias.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

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. Thinking about the future is hard, mainly because we are glued to the present.

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