Mark Freeman

Mark Freeman is the Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society in the Department of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross. His books include Rewriting the Self: History, Memory, Narrative and Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward.

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A black and white portrait of a man with a large mustache is overlaid on a green collage containing a baseball and a baseball field, subtly evoking the philosophy of hindsight.

Business

What baseball and Nietzsche tell us about the perils of hindsight

Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.