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The 2025 Panmure House Prize was awarded to Professor Tima Bansal from Ivey Business School, Western University. She returns a year on from her award to give a lecture on her work "Executive Decision Making in a Complex Environment". Professor Bansal will explore how executives are trained to make decisions in complex environments in one of two ways: reduce the complexity or seek to map it in full. The first produces answers that are clean, clear, and confident, but often wrong. The second produces maps that are difficult to act on. Bansal will show an alternative approach to decision-making under complexity.

Explore the lives, friendship and enduring legacy of Adam Smith, James Hutton and Joseph Black at Panmure House. Presented in partnership with the James Hutton Institute, this special event marks the 300th anniversary of Hutton's birth and the 250th anniversary of the publication of The Wealth of Nations. Discover how the friendship and exchange of ideas between three of the Scottish Enlightenment's leading figures helped transform economics, geology and chemistry, shaping the modern world in ways that continue to influence us today.