An enduring societal challenge the world over is a “perspective deficit” in collective decision-making. Whether within a single business, at the local community level, or the international level, some ...

Years ago, I worked for a Fortune 40 corporation which, at the time, sported nearly 60,000 employees. As you might imagine, getting anything done required teamwork, active listening, and collaboration ...

Judgment aggregation is an emerging interdisciplinary field that examines how individual opinions, beliefs, or preferences over a set of interrelated propositions can be combined into a coherent ...

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 ...

Ariel Procaccia is the Alfred and Rebecca Lin Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). His work combines mathematics, computer ...

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.” ...

In a small, highly aligned team, collective decision making can be efficient. But as an organization scales up, consensus-driven business decision making becomes a bottleneck. In the modern workforce, ...

Decision-making is part of our daily lives. We spend our time making decisions big and small, whether it's what to eat, how to get to a place or how to plan tasks at work. Nothing could be more normal ...

AJMC: Please describe the process for the treatment of psoriasis currently at your health system, Emory Healthcare. What guidelines/pathways are involved? HAUMSCHILD: Our psoriasis treatment approach ...

Great leaders are often the result of great decisions. Decision making is a human cognitive process that is often completed many times a day. However, hard decisions are the result of analyzing the ...