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From unknowns to black swans
13 Feb 2019

From unknowns to black swans

by Christoph Loch | posted in: Management | 3

Why more positive ‘counterfactual reasoning’ is better than reactive ‘disconfirmation’ in dealing with extremely uncertain situations. Discussion of risk management in the past two decades has often revolved around two catchy phrases: the “known unknowns” coined in 2002 by then-US … Continued

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Christoph Loch is Professor of Operations & Technology Management at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

Originally from Germany, Christoph was previously at INSEAD, where he was Director of the Israel Research Center and Dean of the PhD programme.

He holds a PhD from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, an MBA from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and a Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieur degree from the Darmstadt Institute of Technology in Germany.

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