Members of newly formed design teams have different frames – implicit values, goals and assumptions – each of them hold about what problems are important and how they are best addressed. In the early, informal phases of design projects, these frames, and the degree to which they are shared...

Life is uncertain. So is merger analysis. There is a well-developed set of tools to deal with decision making under uncertainty. Experience suggests that the federal antitrust agencies and the courts have yet to take full advantage of those tools. This chapter suggests ways that decision theory...