Knowledge Content Library
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Ethics for the Real World: Creating a Personal Code to Guide Decisions in Work and Life
by Ronald Howard (SDP Fellow) and Clinton Korver
Invites readers into ethics' gray areas and guides them in developing a personal ethical code hardy enough for the most ambiguous situations.
163
Portfolio Decision Analysis: Improved Methods for Resource Allocation
by Ahti Salo, Jeffrey Keisler (SDP Fellow), Alec Morton, Editors
A diverse and up-to-date coverage of Portfolio Decision Analysis.
164
Uncertainty: A Guide to Dealing with Uncertainty in Quantitative Risk and Policy Analysis
by M. Granger Morgan and Max Henrion (SDP Fellow)
A guide to dealing with uncertainty in quantitative risk and policy analysis.
165
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
A must read for decision professionals
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Foundations of Decision Analysis
by Ali Abbas, Ron Howard
A groundbreaking text that explores the art of decision making, both in life and in professional settings.
166
Decision Traps: The Ten Barriers to Decision-Making and How to Overcome Them
by J. Edward Russo and Paul Schoemaker
Barriers to making good decisions and guidance on how to overcome them.
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Winning Decisions: Getting It Right the First Time
by J. Edward Russo and Paul Schoemaker
A comprehensive, one-of-a-kind guide to the proven methods of making critical business decisions confidently, quickly–and correctly.
167
The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty
by Sam L. Savage
Describes common avoidable mistakes in assessing risk in the face of uncertainty.
168
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
by Peter L. Bernstein
A comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability.
169
The Signal and the Noise
by Nate Silver
Why so many predictions fail - but some don't.
170
Advances in Decision Analysis: From Foundations to Applications
by Ward Edwards, Ralph F. Miles, Jr. and Detlof von Winterfeldt
Covers the broad scope of decision analysis at an advanced level.
365
Decisions with Multiple Objectives: Preferences and Value Tradeoffs
by Ralph Keeney and Howard Raiffa
The classic text laying out the axiomatic foundations for multiattribute utility approaches.
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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Chip Heath takes off from where Daniel Kahneman left off in Thinking Fast and Slow and offers solutions to work with our biases and not let them misguide us.
172
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
by Douglas W. Hubbard
This math best-seller argues that most individuals can be trained to assess calibrated probabilities and presents a procedure for evaluating quantities in a decision analytically consistent way.
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The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It
by Douglas W. Hubbard
An essential guide to the calibrated risk analysis approach.
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Introduction to Decision Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide to Improving Decision Quality
by David C. Skinner
Excellent resource for managers, technical professionals, and decision analysts, regardless of experience level with decision analysis.
175
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
by Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, Amos Tversky
A collection of classic articles on this important subject.
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Choices, Values, and Frames
by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
Choices, Values, and Frames presents an empirical and theoretical challenge to classical utility theory, offering prospect theory as an alternative framework.
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
With a new section: On Robustness and Fragility.
177
Decision Analysis for Petroleum Exploration
by Paul Newendorp, John Schuyler, Timothy Nieman
A guide to risk and economic decision analysis applied to exploration.