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What’s the Big Idea? With Guests Robert Rydell & Don Moore

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

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World's Fairs

World's fairs can be exciting, pivotal, reputation enhancing events for many cities. But they are also often plagued with budget overruns and costly delays. A common feature of these complex events is optimism. We overestimate how well things will go and under appreciate all that could go wrong. In my mba classes at wharton, i often test this tendency by asking students to predict a series of questions. See if you can spot the problem with their levels of confidence.

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