Strategy & Corporate Finance

Smart leadership accounts for the irrationalities of human behavior, and knows how to plan around them. By tapping into decades of well-documented behavioral insights, businesses can get ahead of the cognitive biases and heuristics that compromise individual and group decision-making.

Business · Society

Group Decision Making: How to Be Effective and Efficient

By Yasmine Kalkstein

A failure to think critically in a group setting is fueled by our desire to conform to a majority and our hesitation to re-evaluate initially rejected solutions.

The Dos and Don’ts of Corporate Social Responsibility

By Teresa Turco

Corporate Social Responsibility has become a buzzword for business executives. To remain competitive in this changing economic culture, firms tout their CSR programs, funnelling money into philanthropy, social movements, advertising their new green policies, and emphasizing their commitment to local communities.

Business

How Biases Can Color Entrepreneurial Decision-Making

By Sanketh Andhavarapu

The decision to pivot can make or break a growing business. When cognitive biases cloud our thought process, the consequences can be huge.

Business · Society

How Culture Affects The Way We Work

By Art Markman

In addition to teaching concepts and skills, culture also shapes more subtle aspects of thinking.

Featured Capabilities

See how we’re helping organizations leverage science to reduce risk and maximize value from strategy creation through execution.

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Debiasing Strategic Decisions

Explore the biases & heuristics that create barriers to effective decision-making - from excessive optimism and emotional attachments to confirmation bias, "sunflower management", loss aversion and more - in order to make more evidence based business decisions

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Use behavioral insights and audits to improve understanding and implementation of cultural alignment, and factor it into M&A decisions with a greater degree of confidence

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Improving Corporate Governance

Institutionalize the lessons of behavioral science to steer your organization in the direction of compliance and strong governance, and spot the warning signs in certain behaviors that reliably predict a potential issue before it becomes a problem