Class Discussion March 20: Collective Action and Decision-making James Surowiecki's excerpt on the wisdom of crowds presents some really compelling ideas. It would seem that crowds are more likely to ...

Good decision making is an art form that is scarce in many organizations. This is evident in a recent study from McKinsey, which indicated that only 20% of organizations “excel at decision making.” ...

Collective decision-making is hardly a perfect science. Broken processes, data overload, information asymmetry, and other inequities only compound the challenges that come from large, disparate ...

The purpose of this course is to explore collective decision making from an algorithmic point of view. We study settings where groups of agents need to make a joint decision by aggregating preferences ...

From small committees to national elections, group decision-making can be complicated -- and it may not always settle on the best choice. That's partly because some members of the group do research on ...

The following was jointly authored by Gregg Henriques and Andy Williams, founder of the Nobeah Foundation. For more of Andy's biography, see below. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated a ...

As a leader, you’re constantly making decisions that affect those around you. With more data and insights pouring into your business than ever before, many of those decisions are coming at lightning ...

Successful leadership outcomes rest on the ability of leaders to make effective decisions, which, to some extent, is based on how, and the speed at which, information is processed. In a complex and ...