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Reason
June 2005
Virginia Postrel |
Consumer Vertigo A new wave of social critics claim that Americans are facing a crisis of choice and that too many choices is the latest way liberal societies in general, and markets in particular, make people miserable. Here's why they're wrong. |
BusinessWeek
April 26, 2004
Hardy Green |
Clobbered By The Cornucopia A review of Barry Schwartz's book "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less." |
Reason
April 2004
Charles Paul Freund |
Option Overload According to Barry Schwartz's book The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Ecco), the costs to consumers of market choices can outweigh the apparent benefits, and not merely in terms of time. |
Fast Company
Jane Porter |
Why Having Too Many Choices Is Making You Unhappy Imposing your own constraints when trying to make a choice in your professional and creative work can help you make a better thought-out decision. |
Investment Advisor
April 2010
Olivia Mellan |
Cover Story: The Upside of Irrationality Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, has wondered for years why people often don't act in their own best interest. As advisors, how can you use this knowledge? |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 7, 2005
Jim Heskett |
If You Blink, Will You Miss? The power of snap judgements and ways that people develop the ability to make them. |
Job Journal
October 17, 2010
Penelope Trunk |
Brazen Careerist: Why Waiting for a Great Job Will Hurt Your Career If you're unemployed in today's job market, don't get too picky. |
CRM
October 25, 2010
Alan Adler |
CRM: More Relevant Than Ever When used effectively, CRM can consume, organize, and help make sense of data. |
The Motley Fool
February 17, 2011
Brad Hessel |
Can Behavioral Economics Boost Your Retirement Savings? Shaped by 190,000 years of pre-civilization experience, humans make bad long-term value choices -- but there's hope yet. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 21, 2003 |
Will Baby-Boomers' Retirement Years Go Bust from a Lack of Savings? A recent Pension Research Council conference looked at factors that influence participation in retirement-savings plans. Why do people save less than they should? How can pension plans be structured to improve participation? |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 28, 2005
Jim Heskett |
Summing Up: How Do We Know When and Whether to Blink? Most readers and non-readers of Malcolm Gladwell's book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, are willing to accept the premise that there is a time and place for "thin slicing" that leads to quick decision making based on sense borne of experience. |
CIO
March 25, 2011
Kim S. Nash |
You Can't Use a Smartphone for Everything The types of devices you give your colleagues and the way you deliver data have an impact on how they understand information. Business-focused CIOs learn how people in their organizations think, so they can apply the right technology to spark better decisions. |
Job Journal
October 21, 2012
Deborah Brown-Volkman |
Career Pros: Stop Making Career Excuses If you are not where you'd like to be in your career, it's easy to blame circumstances beyond your control. But that's no excuse for accepting the status quo. |
