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Howard Raiffa

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Howard Raiffa

Howard Raiffa was a pioneer in decision analysis, negotiation, and behavioral decision theory.

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Howard Raiffa is associated with work that helps practitioners understand how knowledge is created, structured, shared, or acted upon in complex systems.

Their work contributes to the Knowledge Flow library because it offers concepts, practices, or research traditions that make invisible thinking more visible.

Across the library, this person helps connect individual cognition, social coordination, technical design, and institutional behavior to the larger question of how understanding moves through systems.

Relevance to Knowledge Flow

Raiffa supports Knowledge Flow by providing foundations for structured judgment under uncertainty.

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Work by Howard Raiffa

Book

Smart Choices

A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions

Good decisions require more than intuition or analysis alone. Smart Choices offers a practical framework for clarifying objectives, evaluating alternatives, handling uncertainty, and making tradeoffs deliberately.

Knowledge Flow

  • Distributed Decision-Making