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- How to Decide in a Time of Confusion
- A practical five-step plan to make sure you have the data (and the mind-set) you need to make great decisions in a time of unprecedented risk and uncertainty. Study Your Business Environment Goal: Compile information to understand what you know...
- Articles 2009-05-04
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- Microsoft readies internal overhaul ;Corporate ad group changes aim to speed decisionmaking process.
- Microsoft Corp. this week is expected to finalize plans for a reorganization of its corporate advertising group in an attempt to streamline an "unwieldy" decisionmaking process. Microsoft Corp. this week is expected to finalize plans for a reorganization of its corporate advertising group in...
- Research articles 2000-03-27
- Risk Taking and Decisionmaking: Foreign Military Intervention Decisions.(Review) (book review)
- Vertzberger, Yaacov Y. I. Risk Taking and Decisionmaking: Foreign Military Intervention Decisions Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press 519 pp. + ix, $69.50 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-8047-2747-3 cloth ISBN 0-8047-3168-3 paper Publication Date: April 1998 In Risk Taking and Decisionmaking, Yaacov Vertzberger...
- Research articles 1999-06-22
- Public participation in environmental decisionmaking at the new millennium: Structuring new spheres of public influence
- In recent years, commentators and government officials have realized the importance of effective solicitation and integration of public participation in environmental decisionmaking. A plethora of theories and strategies designed to encourage decisionmakers to consider public input an integral part of policy development and implementation have been introduced. A similar number...
- Research articles 1999-01-01
- Constitutional Process: A Social Choice Analysis of Supreme Court Decisionmaking. (book review)
- CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS: A SOCIAL CHOICE ANALYSIS OF SUPREME COURT DECISIONMAKING. By Maxwell L. Stearns. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2000. Pp. ix, 420. $65. Bismarck famously remarked: "Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made." (1) This witticism applies...
- Research articles 2002-05-01
- Stumped? Research Suggests an Unlikely Way to Improve Your Thinking
- Stumped? Research Suggests an Unlikely Way to Improve Your ThinkingThe Body, Stress and Attractive ResultsGreat article. Our bodies give us so many valid signals to assist us un decisionmaking and perception. When chronically stressed most of these signals get lost in the static. As a coach who...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-26
- Avoid Four Deadly Traps in Decision Making
- Avoid Four Deadly Traps in Decision MakingDecision making isn't all YOUIt took me a long time but I have learned how to involve others and their expertise into honestly seeing and isses not subjectively seeing them. Thats important and maybe even critical in key decisionmaking.Herea a few points that this...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-26
- The peacocking of Pax.(programming plans)
- NBC will have wide-ranging impact on new partnership, despite owning only 32% NBC may have bought only a third of Paxson--to stay within FCC rules-but it appears to have 50-plus percent of the decisionmaking power over a wide range of issues...
- Research articles 1999-10-11
- Lucent Shuffles Its Senior Management Team in Effort to Streamline.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Nov. 8--Lucent Technologies yesterday revamped its senior management team in an effort to streamline the world's largest maker of communications equipment and quicken the pace of decisionmaking. Nov. 8--Lucent Technologies yesterday revamped its senior management team in an effort to streamline the world's...
- Research articles 2000-11-08
- Rational choice, situated action, and the social control of organizations
- The legal and administrative apparatus responsible for the social control of organizations relies extensively on the deterrent effects of punishment. This strategy presumes a rational choice model of organizational misconduct that decontextualizes decisionmaking, emphasizing consequences while ignoring how preferences are formed. I raise three challenges to the rational choice/ deterrence...
- Research articles 1998-01-01
- Professor Sunstein's fuzzy math
- INTRODUCTION For many years, Professor Sunstein has been one of academia's most persistent and persuasive advocates of federal agency use of cost-benefit analysis in health, safety, and environmental decisionmaking. A cost-benefit balancing approach to governmental decisionmaking squares nicely with civic republican values that acknowledge the important role that government must...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- 2006 Ad
- The recent 2006 Department of Defense Quadrennial Defense Review QDR Report to Congress gives a surprising prominence to decisionmaking reform. Prior to the 2006 QDR Report, Pentagon leaders thought reforms they made between 2001 and 2005 were sufficient to produce major shifts in military capabilities that would move the Department...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Running a Hospital like a Car Factory
- Say you run a large medical center with 480 physicians on staff, and you want to upgrade your operations to eliminate inefficiencies. Where would you turn for inspiration? Seattle's Virginia Mason Medical Center looked to Toyota's production system to cure its ailments. It may seem like an odd choice for...
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- Using Monte Carlo Simulation to Assess and Manage Risk In The Clinical Laboratory
- Managers often are asked to consider opportunities that involve risks. Traditional approaches to evaluating uncertainty fall short of providing a comprehensive view of possible outcomes. Risk analysis techniques using Monte Carlo simulation offer a more sophisticated approach that can help the manager better understand and manage those risks. This article...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Psychophysiology of Real- Time Financial Risk Processing
- A longstanding controversy in economics and finance is whether financial markets are governed by rational forces or by emotional responses. We study the importance of emotion in the decisionmaking process of professional securities traders by measuring their physiological characteristics, e.g., skin conductance, blood volume pulse, etc., during live trading sessions...
- White papers 2003-05-12
- Communicating in a Crisis
- This manual outlines policies and procedures for coordinating communication within the University and between the University, the media, and the public in the event of a public safety emergency or issue crisis. The procedures and policies outlined in this manual are not intended to change the way public safety emergencies...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- The Psychophysiology of Real-Time Financial Risk Processing
- A longstanding controversy in economics and finance is whether financial markets are governed by rational forces or by emotional responses. We study the importance of emotion in the decisionmaking process of professional securities traders by measuring their physiological characteristics, e.g., skin conductance, blood volume pulse, etc., during live trading sessions...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- "Changing Society and The Challenges This Poses to 'The University'"
- New technology, changing expectations and globalisation among other factors are resulting in huge social, economic and cultural change, and in rapid increases in the pace of change. This has implications for the aims and objectives of change making activity, the degree to which these are explicitly stated and shared ,...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- P&G's Secret Weapon: "OR Inside"
- Operations research isn't just geek science at P&G. It's how the $76 billion giant makes every crucial decision, from marketing to inventory management. For decades, Procter & Gamble mostly trusted its executives and brand managers' gut instincts to make critical decisions — when to launch a new product, say, or...
- Articles 2008-02-14
- How to Beat a Personal Sales Slump
- How to Beat a Personal Sales SlumpSales Slump...Ah! Tony Robbins. "Tested in the fire..." How can I forget walking across those hot coals. I can practically see him thumping his chest...A few more ideas:* Go for some small wins to help rebuild your confidence, like getting a...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
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