Expectation management

Climate Policy as Expectation Management

It is believed that the primary economic solution to climate change is an introduction of a carbon pricing system anchored to the social cost of carbon, either as a form of tax or tradable permits. Potentially significant externalities accompanying the introduction of emission-reducing technologies, however, imply that the standard argument does not capture some important aspects for the design...

Reply Expectation Prediction for Email Management

We reduce email overload by addressing the problem of waiting for a reply to one’s email. We predict whether sent and received emails necessitate a reply, enabling the user to both better manage his inbox and to track mail sent to others. We discuss the features used to discriminate emails, show promising initial results with a logistic regression model, and outline future directions for this w...

A Benefits Expectation Management Framework for Supply Chain Management Systems

Organizations invest heavily in Supply Chain Management Systems (SCMS) expecting to receive the benefits claimed by software vendors and implementation partners. Reports suggest a growing dissatisfaction among client organizations due to an increasing gap between expectations and realization of SCMS benefits. This study presents a Benefit Expectation Management Framework for SCMS, based on the ...

A Study on Preference Orderings of Mathematical expectation, Expected Utility and Distorted Expectation

One of the challenges for decision-makers in insurance and finance is choosing the appropriate criteria for making decisions. Mathematical expectation, expected utility, and distorted expectation are the three most common measures in this area. In this article, we study these three criteria, and by providing some examples, we review and compare the decisions made by each measure.

CRITERIA Approaching Expectation Meeting Expectation Exceeding Expectation Speech