Leadership Decision Making: From Individuals to Institutions

Harvard HKS

From public health to global security, leaders face high-stakes decisions under deep uncertainty. Navigating these challenges requires understanding how human judgment operates—where it is deeply valuable and where it is systematically prone to error. As machine intelligence takes on a growing role in routine analysis and prediction, the quality of human judgment becomes increasingly consequential. Drawing on research from psychological science, behavioral economics, neuroscience,…