Decision-Making & Problem Solving
- Innovation--The Missing Dimension
- Richard K. Lester
- Michael J. Piore
- Amid mounting concern over the loss of jobs to low-wage economies, one fact is clear: America's prosperity hinges on the ability of its businesses to continually introduce new products and services. But what makes for a creative economy? For an answer, Lester and Piore examine innovation strategies in some of the economy's most dynamic sectors, including cell phones, medical devices, and blue jeans.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- The Matching Law
- Richard J. Herrnstein
- Edited by Howard Rachlin
- Edited by David I. Laibson
- This collection consists of Richard Herrnstein's most important and original contributions to the social and behavioral sciences--his papers on choice behavior in animals and humans and on his discovery and elucidation of a general principle of choice called the matching law.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000
- Value-Focused Thinking
- Ralph L. Keeney
- In this book, Ralph Keeney turns standard decisionmaking methods on their heads. Rather than placing emphasis on mechanics and fixed solutions, Keeney argues, we should focus on the bottom-line objectives that give decisionmaking its meaning: it is through recognizing and articulating fundamental values that we can better identify decision opportunities--and thereby create better decision alternatives.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1996