July 2016


  • 12 Jul 2016

    Prof. Howard Raiffa, Giant in Game Theory and Decision Analysis, Dies at 92

    BOSTON, MA—Howard Raiffa, Harvard University’s Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics Emeritus (a joint endowed chair at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School), who was for decades a pioneering, extraordinarily influential, and world-renowned scholar, researcher, teacher, and mentor in the fields of game theory and decision analysis, died on Friday, July 8, at his home in Tucson, AZ, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 92 years old. Read more.