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Negotiation Journal

Howard Raiffa: The Art, Science, and Humanity of a Legendary Negotiation Analyst

Rightly known as the “father of negotiation analysis,” Howard Raiffa was my thesis advisor, colleague, and friend for over 30 years. The bulk of this article develops an account of his intellectual trajectory from game theory to statistical decision theory to decision analysis and to negotiation...

22 May 2008
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Professor Emeritus Howard Raiffa Wins 2008 Schelling Award

Re: Howard Raiffa

...Howard Raiffa, the eminent pioneer in the field of decision analysis, has been named this year's recipient of the Thomas C. Schelling Award, given annually to an individual whose remarkable intellectual work has had a transformative impact on public policy.

12 Jul 2016
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Harvard Business School

Prof. Howard Raiffa, Giant in Game Theory and Decision Analysis, Dies at 92

                                 
                                       BOSTON, MA—HowardRaiffa, Harvard University’s Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics Emeritus (a joint endowed chair at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School), who was for decades a pioneering, extraordinarily influential, and world-renowned scholar, researcher...

13 Jul 2016
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New York Times

Howard Raiffa, Mathematician Who Studied Decision Making, Dies at 92

                                 
                                       ...HowardRaiffa, an economics professor whose mathematical formulas for decision making were applied to the search for a missing nuclear bomb and the siting of a Mexico City airport, and were even suggested as a way to resolve a strike by professional hockey players, died on Friday at his home in Oro...

01 Jan 2003
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Re: Howard Raiffa

                                       ...HowardRaiffa, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics, Emeritus, and a pioneer in the field of decision analysis, has received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Harvard University. An originator of the "decision tree," he has done extensive work in developing techniques to help...

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Negotiation and Conflict Management Research

Raiffa Transformed the Field of Negotiation—and Me

By: Max Bazerman

...Howard Raiffa was a role model, friend, and inspiration. He transformed the field of negotiation, and he transformed my career. This brief article provides a recollection of how Howard revolutionized the field of negotiation and how those insights are now affecting broader areas of the social...

01 Jan 2002
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Re: David E. Bell

...to mathematical decision theory and its application to important classes of real decision problems. Previous winners include HBS professors emeriti Howard Raiffa and John W. Pratt as well as the late Professor Robert O. Schlaifer.

October 2009
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Negotiation Journal

Negotiation Analysis: From Games to Inferences to Decisions to Deals

By: James K. Sebenius

Exemplified by the pioneering work of Howard Raiffa and often expressed in the pages of the Negotiation Journal, the emergent prescriptive field of "negotiation analysis" progressively developed from Raiffa's early contributions to game theory and to his later foundational work in statistical...

20 Aug 2009
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Working Knowledge

A Decision-Making Perspective to Negotiation: A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future

by Chia-Jung Tsay & Max H. Bazerman

                                       ... On a more scholarly front, a related, yet profoundly different change began with the publication of HBS professor emeritus HowardRaiffa's book The Art and Science of Negotiation (1982), which for years to come transformed how researchers would think about and conduct empirical research. Key concepts...