Howard Raiffa is the Frank P. Ramsey Professor (Emeritus) of Managerial Economics, a joint chair held by the Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is an influential Bayesian decision theorist and negotiation theorist. *His book "Applied Statistical Decision Theory" with Robert Schlaifer introduced the idea of conjugate prior distributions. Wikipedia
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