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Smart choices : a practical guide to making better decisions / John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, Howard Raiffa.
Offers readers an easy-to-follow process to improve ways to make business decisions, family decisions, and personal decisions.
Record details
- ISBN: 0875848575
- ISBN: 9780875848570
- ISBN: 9781633691049
- ISBN: 1633691047
- Physical Description: x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, [1999]
- Copyright: ©1999
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Making smart choices: how to think about your whole decision problem: a proactive approach -- Problem: how to define your decision problem to solve the right problem -- Objectives: how to clarify what you're really trying to achieve with your decision -- Alternatives: how to make smarter choices by creating better alternatives to choose from -- Consequences: how to describe how well each alternative meets your objectives -- Tradeoffs: how to make tough compromises when you can't achieve all your objectives at once -- Uncertainty: how to think about and act on uncertainties affecting your decision -- Risk tolerance: how to account for your appetite for risk -- Linked decisions: how to plan ahead by effectively coordinating current and future decisions -- Psychological traps: how to avoid some of the tricks your mind can play on you when you're deciding -- The wise decision maker: how to make smart choices a way of life. |
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| Subject: | Decision making |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Castle-Henry County PL - New Castle | 153.83 HAMM (Text) | 39231030783779 | Adult Non-fiction Collection | Available | - |
| Westfield Washington PL - Westfield | 153.83 Hammond (Text) | 78292000140818 | Adult Non-Fiction Books | Available | - |
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John S. Hammond is an internationally known decision-making consultant specializing in negotiation and corporate strategy, and a former professor at Harvard Business School. Ralph L. Keeney is a Research Professor Emeritus at Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a well-known decision-making consultant. Howard Raiffa, a pioneer in developing decision and negotiating analysis, is professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, and the author of The Art and Science of Negotiation. He has extensively taught decision making to students of business, public policy, law, and medicine.
