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Obesity: Nudging Towards Health 2.0

Health 2.0 is 21st century health policy. It is about rational discriminating patients making decisions about their quality of life; it is about nudging people to participate in a wellness-and-lifestyle programme  (WLP) with timely and effective health care for better health and improved quality of life. Our client, Medfit Proactive Healthcare, is the first and […]

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A Nudge Too Far: Are You Ready for the Future?

Using audience participation games Patrick will be addressing business audiences in both Singapore (March 3rd) and Hong Kong (March 6th) on the theme of the digital self and data patterns. Building on a series of behavioural economics anecdotes and real examples from game theory he will present a critical review of game theory and behavioural […]

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Management Behaviour & Twittering of Geese

An early version of a manuscript has been discovered amongst the archives, so here it is with a particular relevance today in defining the game boundaries of a management team, wherein products survive, markets evolve and firms grow. As players, management adapt to their environment and adopt new strategies just like a family of geese […]

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Whither the Euro? The Liar’s Paradox

Whither the Euro? The Liar’s Paradox In Dickens’ Hard Times the character Mr Gradgrind can’t help but speak about Facts to his pupils: ‘Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else’. As we listen to […]

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Activist shareholders, Tobin’s q = Marris v

Investors generally over-react to good and bad times. Equity values are now increasing at a decreasing rate across the indexes as investors anticipate corporate earnings and begin to read the signals; many investors extrapolate past share price performance, and using an moving average or charting the trends in the share price are de rigueur in […]

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