Don Andrew Moore (born 1970) is an author, academic, and professor. He is the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair I of Leadership and Communication at

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where he teaches classes on leadership, negotiation, and decision making.

Education

Moore attended Carleton College, graduating in 1993 with a degree in psychology. He earned master's (1998) and doctoral degrees (2000) from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management,

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Career

Moore is a professor at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business where he has been on faculty since 2010. At Haas he has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and (for 3 months) as Acting Dean. Moore is primarily known for his work in behavioral economics, with a focus on decision making and

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. He was among the co-leaders of the Good Judgment Project, a forecasting tournament that predicted geopolitical events. The project was sponsored by the U.S. government's

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(IARPA). He has published three books: ''Judgment and Managerial Decision Making'' and ''Decision Leadership'', both co-authored with Max Bazerman, as well as ''Perfectly Confident: How to Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely.''

References

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