Entrepreneurs like to gamble
We like to think of successful entrepreneurs as brazen risk-takers, betting everything on a new invention or idea. But take a closer look at their decision-making - and a very different picture...
Anna Timonina-Farkas is a scientific researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, conducting research in the field of Operations Research and Operations Management. Before joining EPFL, she served as a Research Scholar at the Risk, Policy, and Vulnerability program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Vienna, Austria), pursuing research around disaster risk management.
31 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
We like to think of successful entrepreneurs as brazen risk-takers, betting everything on a new invention or idea. But take a closer look at their decision-making - and a very different picture...
25 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
For decades, politicians and business leaders in the West have portrayed China as a place where innovations are copied - not created. But has this picture of an “imitation nation” blinded us...
18 March 2021 • by Michael R. Wade in Management • 1 min read • Podcast available
Over a hundred years ago, the explorer Ernest Shackleton safely led his crew through a series of disasters in one of the world's harshest environments....
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