Bent Flyvbjerg

ThinkersBorn 1952Economic geographer

Works

  • From Nobel Prize to Project Management: Getting Risks Right, Project Management Journal, 2006

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A scholar of megaprojects at Oxford and Copenhagen. He turned Kahneman and Tversky's outside view into reference class forecasting for large projects, tracing cost and schedule overruns to optimism bias and strategic misrepresentation and correcting forecasts with the record of similar past projects.

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