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"In pursuit of the real deal": A longitudinal study of VC decision making

Marc Gruber

This paper investigates actual Venture Capital (VC) decision making as it occurs over time in its natural decision environment. Our qualitative analysis is based on a comprehensive, longitudinal data set comprising 11 years of archival data from a European ...

Elsevier2011

Demystifying Rational Financial Decision-Making

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu

Is the human brain wired for wealth? The setting is the high-velocity financial environment. Undoubtedly, the development of sophisticated derivative instruments has improved the allocation of risk across economies, highlighting the nexus between banking a ...

EPFL2011

Selfish Response to Epidemic Propagation

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Georgios Theodorakopoulos

An epidemic spreading in a network calls for a decision on the part of the network members: They should decide whether to protect themselves or not. Their decision depends on the trade off between their perceived risk of being infected and the cost of bein ...

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Elicitation and Modeling of Operational Human Decision Making in a Supply Chain Context

Souleïman Naciri

Supply chains (SC) are complex systems in which human beings play a key role. Whereas human impact is often taken into account in simulation models in terms of physical flows (material handling, fabrication), it is far less the case in terms of information ...

EPFL2010

A Behavioral and Neural Evaluation of Prospective Decision-Making under Risk

Making the best choice when faced with a chain of decisions requires a person to judge both anticipated outcomes and future actions. Although economic decision-making models account for both risk and reward in single-choice contexts, there is a dearth of s ...

2010

Aggregation and discretization in multistage stochastic programming

Daniel Kuhn

Multistage stochastic programs have applications in many areas and support policy makers in finding rational decisions that hedge against unforeseen negative events. In order to ensure computational tractability, continuous-state stochastic programs are us ...

2008

Bound-based decision rules in multistage stochastic programming

Daniel Kuhn

We study bounding approximations for a multistage stochastic program with expected value constraints. Two simpler approximate stochastic programs, which provide upper and lower bounds on the original problem, are obtained by replacing the original stochast ...

2008

Decision-based methods for early phase sustainable product design

Paul Xirouchakis, Razvan Alexandru Gheorghe

This paper presents a new method for evaluating product designs at their early stage of development according to different criteria and a case-study-based project. The goal is to select among imprecisely defined design alternatives in a multicriteria conte ...

2007

Review of Eurotunnel’s Decision-Making Process A critical appraisal of Ex-ante vs. Ex-post studies

Tristan Chevroulet, Aymeric Sevestre, Georgeta Geambasu, Christian Reynaud

This document provides a methodical investigation of the main assessment steps that have led to the construction of Eurotunnel and it compares the results of the analyses that were achieved before the key decisions with the results of studies that have bee ...

2007

Modèle de prévision et de gestion des crues

Frédéric Jordan

Floods are not only due to fatality. It is the responsibility of the human being to protect himself from heavy damages due to natural elements, and he sometimes has the chance to profit from a given situation to influence events. One of these possibilities ...

EPFL2007