The purpose of this exercise is that the students have some biases that may be harmful to strategic decision making. In particular, students are forced to fall into the trap of confirmation, and experience other biases, such as mounting and sampling bias. While exercise can be performed individually, this is the best car to explore how some team level, dynamics and structural choices can increase or decrease the probability of getting into such biases. Exercise creates a situation that reflects one of the leading in the Challenger disaster. "Hide
by Giovanni Gavetti, Francesca Gino Source: Harvard Business School 1 pages. Publication Date: March 24, 2011. Prod. #: 711509-PDF-ENG
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