John Winsor Pratt (born 1931) is Emeritus William Ziegler professor business administration at Harvard University.
[1] Pratt spent most of his academic career at Harvard University.
He was an editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association from 1965 to 1970.
[1] His researches on risk aversion, risk sharing incentives, and the nature and discovery of stochastic laws, statistical relationships that describe the effects of decisions.
[1] He has made contributions to research in risk aversion theory, notably with Kenneth Arrow on measures of risk aversion.