Author: Howard Kunreuther

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Michael Useem is William and Jaclyn Egan Professor of Management at The Wharton School, where he is also Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management. His previous books include The India Way, The Go Point, Leading Up, The Leadership Moment, and Boards that Lead. Howard Kunreuther is James G. Dinan Professor of Decision Sciences and Public Policy at The Wharton School. He is Co-Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis. Erwann Michel-Kerjan is Executive Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center and Chair of the OECD Secretary-General Board on Financial Management of Catastrophes.




16 Ebooks by Howard Kunreuther

Patricia Grossi & Howard Kunreuther: Catastrophe Modeling
Catastrophe Modeling: A New Approach to Managing Risk is the first book that systematically analyzes how catastrophe models can be used for assessing and managing risks of extreme events. It focuses …
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€234.33
Michael Useem & Howard Kunreuther: Leadership Dispatches
On February 27, 2010, Chile was rocked by a violent earthquake five hundred times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti just six weeks prior. The Chilean earthquake devastated schools, hospitals, …
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€40.99
Ronald J. Daniels & Donald F. Kettl: On Risk and Disaster
Named one of Planetizen’s Top 10 Books of 2006 Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation’s Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and shoul …
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€34.99
Howard Kunreuther & Robert J. Meyer: The Future of Risk Management
Whether man-made or naturally occurring, large-scale disasters can cause fatalities and injuries, devastate property and communities, savage the environment, impose significant financial burdens on i …
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€39.99
Howard Kunreuther & Sr. Richard J. Roth: Paying the Price
This book considers the effectiveness of insurance coverage for low-probability, high-consequence events such as natural disastersand how insurance programs can successfully be used with other policy …
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€51.45
James Chalmers & Doug Easterling: One Hundred Centuries Of Solitude
Time is both the ally of high-level nuclear waste (HLNW) managers and the enemy. It is the ally because the radioactivity in elements and isotopes decreases with age, making the waste progressively l …
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€50.72
James Chalmers & Doug Easterling: One Hundred Centuries Of Solitude
Time is both the ally of high-level nuclear waste (HLNW) managers and the enemy. It is the ally because the radioactivity in elements and isotopes decreases with age, making the waste progressively l …
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€50.84
Paul Slovic: Risk, Media and Stigma
The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of technologies and aversion to certain products and substances. Amplified by the …
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€61.45
Paul Slovic: Risk, Media and Stigma
The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of technologies and aversion to certain products and substances. Amplified by the …
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€61.63
M.V. Rajeev Gowda & Howard Kunreuther: Integrating Insurance and Risk Management for Hazardous Wastes
A challenge facing society today is how to develop a meaningful strategy for integrated hazardous waste management. Meeting this challenge was the principal motivation for the conference on "Ris …
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€166.18
D. Easterling & Howard Kunreuther: Dilemma of Siting a High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository
This book explores siting dilemmas – situations in which an "authority" (e.g., Congress, a consortium of utilities) deems it in the best interest of society to build a facility such as an i …
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€166.68
Colin F. Camerer & Howard Kunreuther: Making Decisions About Liability And Insurance
Two related trends have created novel challenges for managing risk in the United States. The first trend is a series of dramatic changes in liability law as tort law has expanded to assign liability …
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€165.39
Paul K. Freeman & Howard Kunreuther: Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance
Can insurance be used as a means to obtain compliance with environmental policy? Answering this question requires examination of a broad mosaic of academic issues, including current systems available …
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€115.06
Howard Kunreuther & Michael Useem: Mastering Catastrophic Risk
A profound and insightful look at how company leaders prepare for and respond to shocks and crises that threaten their business. Successful firms strategically manage and are more accurate in their a …
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€21.37
Howard Kunreuther & Michael Useem: Mastering Catastrophic Risk
A profound and insightful look at how company leaders prepare for and respond to shocks and crises that threaten their business. Successful firms strategically manage and are more accurate in their a …
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€21.49
Robert Meyer & Howard Kunreuther: The Ostrich Paradox
‘The Ostrich Paradox boldly addresses a key question of our time: Why are we humans so poor at dealing with disastrous risks, and what can we humans do about it? It is a must-read for everyone who ca …
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€17.99