Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market. Academic journals have dissected the disruptive innovation theory and hundreds of thousands of students around the world have seen Christensen's famous model.

Innovation 15

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Christensen Kahneman 15

Women in the LEAD

OCTOBER 22, 2009

As a leader, co-worker, friend, mom, sister, wife or partner, it also reminds us how important our words and actions can be in influencing someone else's moments and experience: " According to Nobel Prize-winning scientist Daniel Kahneman, we experience approximately 20,000 individual moments in a waking day. Berrett -Koehler ?

Kahneman 60

Kahneman Letter Influence Globalization 60

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.'.

Kahneman 15

Kahneman Tversky Company Innovation 15

Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Daniel Kahneman. It’s in the new that insights, ideas, and innovation comes from. Here’s a shocking statistic: two-thirds of senior managers can’t name their firm’s top priorities! I recently spoke with him about his work. We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. What’s the downside?

Leadership 109

Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing Quality 109

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

“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.

Competitive Advantage 11

Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. Our first challenge was to answer the question: How do we separate the merely confident managers from the overconfident variety? Most of us think of overconfidence as a bad thing.

Stephenson 11

Stephenson Kahneman CEO Commitment 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Ever since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, observers have bemoaned boards of directors as being ineffective as both monitors and advisors of management. Advances in machine learning have led to innovations ranging from facial recognition software to self-driving cars. Jens Magnusson/Getty Images.

Company 9

Company Learning-by-Doing Kahneman CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

The ongoing explosion of technologically-enabled business opportunities inherently expand the ethical dilemmas, quandaries and trade-offs managements will confront. Everyone online can—if they want to make the effort—become an amateur Asch , Skinner , Zimbardo , Pavlov , Ariely , Kahneman and/or Vernon Smith.

Ethics 8

Ethics Zimbardo Kahneman Explicit Knowledge 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

They succumb to changing times and conditions, to innovations by competitors, to poor decisions and lack of adaptability by their owners and managers, and to bad luck. Most businesses fail, eventually. But the flipside of such cognitive bias, it would seem, is lack of optimism.

Kahneman 15

Kahneman Construction Creativity Review 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 22, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an excellent article written by Paul J. Schoemaker and featured online at the Inc. magazine website. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and obtain deep-discount subscription information, please click here. * * * The best problem solvers see a complex problem through multiple lenses.

Discount 89

Discount Magazine Article Resources 89

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

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. Absolutely.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 23, 2012

Schoemaker is a pioneer in the field of decision sciences, among the first to combine the practical ideas of decision theory, behavioral economics, scenario planning, and risk management into a set of strategic decision-making tools for managers.

Scenario Planning 85

Scenario Planning Risk Management Tools Planning 85

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. But the same managers would never admit this in public.

Uncertainty 10

Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 10