"This is a scholarly masterpiece - combining the best classic and current research and theory on risk taking and applying it to real problems in the complex world of the modern manager.  Shapira offers a novel approach to thinking about risk from the manager's point of view." 
                                  - Aministrative Science Quarterly

"Shapira did something too rare in work on risk and decision making: He collected real data from real decision makers." 
                               - Academy of Management Review 

"[A]n original perspective to the study of managerial decision making...  A new and valued contribution to the literature.  All serious scholars of risk should read this book." 
                                            - Contemporary Psychology 

"Shapira's book gives very good insights into the decision making process of managers...  Students of decision theory and managers will find this book informative and worthwhile read." 
                      - Journal of Behavioral Decision Making