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If you haven't already been sent home to work in the midst of the spreading COVID-19 pandemic, you may very well find yourself there soon. The government is urging anyone who can work remotely to do so for up to eight weeks (or even longer) as the nation tries to...
The CDC Needs a Better Way to Communicate Coronavirus Risk
The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is continuing to grow, and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is ramping up testing to gather more data on the spread of the virus in the U.S. Gathering data is a must, but unfortunately, the CDC is running into a very common - and...
Doug Hubbard’s The Failure of Risk Management Second Edition Is Now Available
Hubbard Decision Research today announced the release of the second edition of the ground-breaking book on risk management, The Failure of Risk Management: What’s Broke and How to Fix It, published by Wiley and Sons. The second edition expands upon the central theme...
HDR Launches New Customizable COVID-19 Coronavirus Operational Risk Report
customizable coronavirus (covid-19) operational risk REPORTProviding daily, weekly, or Twice-weekly Probabilistic Forecasts tailored to inform your operational decisions for mitigating a rapidly-changing threat,Hubbard Research STAY AHEAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS CURVE:...
How to Measure Anything Book Sales Have Exceeded the 100,000 Mark
Over 12 years ago, on August 3, 2007, the first edition of How to Measure Anything was published. Since then, Doug Hubbard has written two more editions that now have sold over 100,000 copies in that series alone - copies purchased by customers ranging from...
Diamond Princess: A Data Science Solution To the COVID-19 Test Kit Shortage
Rarely does an opportunity present itself where statistics can so immediately and with so much impact solve a pressing real world problem. Shortly before publishing this post, we reached out and talked to the Japanese Ministry of Health and they indicated that they...
Watch Doug’s Talk at Cybersecurity Risk Seminar Hosted by Defense Acquisition University and NavalX
On February 5, 2020, Doug Hubbard participated in a panel about cybersecurity risk hosted by Defense Acquisition University and NavalX. You can watch him help acquisition professionals see cybersecurity in a whole new way in the video clip below. Learn how to...
The Total Number of Coronavirus-Infected Cruise Ship Passengers Will Be in the Hundreds
Update: A new batch of test results was released on 2/15/2020, bringing the total number so far to 355 confirmed infections. The cruise ship has another week left in quarantine, and officials expect more cases to come - in line with our estimates (see below). The...
