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Author Hammond, John S., 1937-

Title Smart choices : a practical guide to making better decisions / John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, Howard Raiffa
Published Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents 1. Making Smart Choices -- 2. Problem -- 3. Objectives -- 4. Alternatives -- 5. Consequences -- 6. Tradeoffs -- 7. Uncertainty -- 8. Risk Tolerance -- 9. Linked Decisions -- 10. Psychological Traps -- 11. The Wise Decision Maker -- A Roadmap to Smart Choices
Summary Smart Choices offers the first straightforward, easy-to-follow process designed to improve the way you make business decisions, family decisions, personal decisions - any decision that can help you reach your goals. Authors Hammond, Keeney, and Raiffa, among the world's best-known experts on resolving complex decision problems, have created a set of techniques for assessing your options more clearly and effectively, ultimately empowering you to make smarter choices. Their step-by-step procedures combine solid research with practical experience and common sense to help you specify your objectives, identify creative alternatives, make reasoned tradeoffs, clarify uncertainties, and evaluate the risks. Smart Choices doesn't tell you what to decide; it tells you how
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Decision making.
Author Keeney, Ralph L., 1944-
Raiffa, Howard, 1924-2016.
LC no. 98008118
ISBN 0585310750
0875848575 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OTHER TI netLibrary