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.” ...

Values-based decision making differs substantially from more traditional, top-down models of decision making in that everyone in an organization has a part to play in establishing and maintaining the ...

Andy Blunden's book traces three decision-making structures across recent history. The first is Counsel, where a central authority gets feedback from subjects before making its decision. But the other ...

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 ...

BENGALURU: Konanakunte Lake, located in Bengaluru South, which was reduced to a mini-dumping yard, has been rejuvenated. The dry lake, filled with weeds, garbage, silt and household waste, was ...