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Smart Choices
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Smart Choices

by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, Howard Raiffa
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
4h 56m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CONTENTS

Preface
1 Making Smart Choices

How to think about your whole decision problem: a proactive approach

2 Problem

How to define your decision problem to solve the right problem

3 Objectives

How to clarify what you're really trying to achieve with your decision

4 Alternatives

How to make smarter choices by creating better alternatives to choose from

5 Consequences

How to describe how well each alternative meets your objectives

6 Tradeoffs

How to make tough compromises when you can't achieve all your objectives at once

7 Uncertainty

How to think about and act on uncertainties affecting your decision

8 Risk Tolerance

How to account for your appetite for risk

9 Linked Decisions

How to plan ahead by effectively ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781633691056