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MSI Book Series: Decisions Over Decimals: Striking the Balance between Intuition and Information
Agile decision-making is imperative for leaders in a data-driven world. In their new book, Decisions Over Decimals: Striking the Balance Between Intuition and Information, author Christopher Frank Vice President of AmexInsights at American Express, Paul Magnone, Head of Global Strategic Alliances at Google, and Oded Netzer, Vice Dean for Research and Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, provide a roadmap for effective decision-making, calling upon human intuition to join forces with data instead of replacing it.
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Christopher is Vice President of AmexInsights at American Express where he leads the Global Communications and Brand Research Analytics Group. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University. His ability to connect insight to strategy in a coherent and actionable way has won him global recognition as a leader in his field, as well as a plethora of industry awards.
Paul is Head of Global Strategic Alliances at Google where he is developing a growing ecosystem of partners that will unlock the next generation of business value via the cloud and related technologies. He is a systems thinker and business builder focused on understanding where technology is headed and answering what it means for a business. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University.
Professor Netzer is a Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, an Executive Committee Member of the Columbia Data Science Institute, and the author of the book Decisions over Decimals. His research focuses on data-driven decision-making and extracting meaningful insights from data, particularly unstructured data. He wrote dozens of papers published in the top-tier academic journals. His research won multiple awards and he serves on the editorial board of several leading journals. He is an award-winning teacher at Columbia Business School's MBA, Executive MBA, and Executive Education programs. Professor Netzer is also an Amazon Scholar at Amazon’s Advertising Sales AI team.