High level deal-making can be an arduous task, so negotiators often bring in a mediator. But there are problems with human mediators: you never know for sure whether they're unbiased, whether they might reveal confidential information by accident, or whether they're fully competent to mediate the negotiation. But there's hope:...
Thrice yearly, a group of analytical business leaders from preeminent Global 500 companies get together for the INFORMS Roundtable meeting. (INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, is a professional society with the aim of improving business through analytics.) In one of the most recent meetings, the...