Douglas Hubbard is a management consultant, speaker, and author in decision sciences and actuarial science.
Hubbard was a business analyst at Coopers & Lybrand[1] in 1988 after finishing his MBA at the University of South Dakota.[citation needed] He formed Hubbard Decision Research in 1998.[citation needed]
He is critical of several popular methods and standards in risk management and decision making in organizations. He argues that extensive research in methods such as "risk matrices", the use of weighted scores in decision making, and expert intuition are inferior to certain quantitative methods.[2]
Hubbard is known for asserting that everything can be measured,[3] and that initial measurements are the most valuable as they reduce the greatest amounts of uncertainty.[citation needed]
His first two books are listed on the Book List for the Society of Actuaries Exam Prep.[7]
His books are on the reading list at School of Business and Economics (College of Charleston), Jon M. Huntsman School of Business (Utah State University), and Carl H. Lindner College of Business (University of Cincinnati).[citation needed]