# Howard Kunreuther
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Howard C. Kunreuther (born 1938) is an American economist. He is the James G. Dinan professor emeritus of decision sciences and public policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
== Background ==
He received an A.B. in economics from Bates College, and a PhD in the same subject from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Betting on Disaster: Why Risk Management Is a Leadership Issue
How boards and executives prepare for risks can make the difference between riding the roughest wave or drowning in it according to a new book by Wharton’s Howard Kunreuther and Michael Useem.
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What Ostriches Can Teach Us About Risk
A new book by Wharton professors Howard Kunreuther and Robert Meyer offers an innovative solution for addressing the biases that prevent people and groups from adequately preparing for disasters.
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What Have the Past 30 Years Taught Us About Managing Risk?
Companies used to worry mostly about risks they could see were coming soon. Robert Meyer Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan from the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center discuss how that has changed over the past three decades.
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How Smart Leadership Revived Chile after an Historic Disaster
In their new book Wharton’s Michael Useem Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan examine how Chile’s leaders facilitated its rebound after the massive 2010 earthquake.
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Curbing California’s Drought -- One Five-minute Shower at a Time
California’s drought-related water usage regulations will work best if they become a social norm with a higher level of awareness says Wharton’s Howard Kunreuther.
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Crisis in Haiti: Where Do We Go from Here?
The earthquake that rocked Haiti last week has caused unimaginable death and destruction a reminder that catastrophes are usually unforeseeable and therefore almost impossible to prepare for. Can any country or region of the world rich or poor take meaningful steps to avoid the destruction cause…
Changes in the Air: What Will Come of the Copenhagen Climate Summit?
More than 100 world leaders gathered in Copenhagen on December 7 for a two-week summit meeting whose ambitious aim is to renew the Kyoto protocol on climate change. The issues being discussed include reducing emissions of green-house gases and setting a price for carbon among others. What are the …
One War We Shouldn’t Avoid: A New Approach to Reducing the Cost of Future Catastrophes
In 2005 three major hurricanes -- Katrina Rita and Wilma -- struck the U.S. Gulf Coast area causing not just death and destruction but also leading to insurance payments and federal disaster relief of more than $180 billion. Today say the authors of a new book titled At War with the Weather: …
Strategies for Dealing with the Risks of 9/11 Katrina and Other Disasters: A Conversation with Wharton Experts
In the five years since the attacks on September 11 2001 Howard Kunreuther Wharton professor of operations and information management has collaborated with members of the private and public sectors to determine how individuals and firms can be motivated to enhance security in our interconnected…
Ep. 603: Avoid the Sunk-Cost Fallacy, and Why it’s Hard to Plan for Emergencies
We talk about how to avoid the mental trap of the “sunk-cost fallacy.” Plus, why it’s so hard to plan for emergencies and the biases that keep us from preparing for risk.
Episode highlights:
Try This at Home: Avoid the sunk-cost fallacy—the mental trap that keeps us committed because of th…
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