PROGRAM

Moderator Ergo Metsla

9.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 Welcome address
10.15

Eugene Sadler-Smith, University of Surrey, UK – “Intuition: Friend or Foe in Managerial Decision Making?”

In this talk he will consider: (1) what intuition is and what it isn’t; (2) the situations in which intuition works well and situations where it doesn’t work well: (3) how we can make intuition work better for us in areas such as creativity, business venturing, and innovation.
11.15

Maris Zernand-Vilson, Tallinn University of Technology – “Options for management and choices by Estonian managers”
12.00 Lunch
13.00

Kaire Põder, Estonian Business School – “Central or decentral decision mechanisms – is market smart? Application of school market”
13.30

Maria Milovzorova, Baltic State Technical University “VOENMEH”, Russia – “The Algorithm for Strucuring Information in Decision-Making”
14.00

Tõnn Talpsepp, Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences – “Why aren’t investors able to learn how to make better decisions?”
14.30 Coffee break
14.50

Valeria Kiisk, Redgate Capital – “Learning from business partners – choosing the right ones”
15.20

PANEL DISCUSSION

“When to use intuition, data or other scientific methods for decisions with high monetary effect?”
16.00–17.00 Closing Cocktails

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

EUGENE SADLER-SMITH
EUGENE SADLER-SMITH

Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Surrey Business School. He has a B.Sc. from the University of Leeds and a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham