Harvard
Namrata Raju is currently pursuing a Master in Public Administration degree at the Harvard Kennedy School. Before this, she worked for 7 years on consumer behaviour research, predominantly in the MENA region and other emerging markets.
This article explores the behavioral phenomenon of overconfidence and its consequences for officials who call the shots on decisions to wage war.
We are still in the early stages of of understanding the ways in which implicit biases shape our behavior, and the ways we can actively combat them.
Policymakers and private players are cottoning on to the reality that people are often imperfectly rational, and factoring this into policy design.
