The Science of Making Good Decisions 01-05
The Science of Making Good DecisionsDigital Marketingimage: http://blog.visme.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Science-Header.jpgThe world is full of disagreements. However, one thing that everyone can...
View ArticleNational Employability Report 02-10
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe key findings of the present study are as follows:No significant improvement in employability in the last four years We did the previous large scale study of employability of...
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, now Rock star of LinkedIn Marketing...
A version of this post originally appeared on LinkedIn. All information in this post is publicly accessible and does not use any private or confidential data. Opinions and views expressed are Ms....
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Turning workers into 'super workers' with robotic suits 02-14
If you've watched the Iron Man film franchise, you'll know that a powered suit gives inventor Tony Stark superhuman strength to fight the bad guys.But away from the the fictional world of blockbusting...
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How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit 02-16
Researchers set out to discover whether they could induce households to develop a healthy habit of handwashing with soap. Here a young boy in West Bengal, India, uses a wall-mounted soap dispenser...
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Developing Novel Drugs 02-16
We analyze firms’ decisions to invest in incremental and radical innovation, focusing specifically on pharmaceutical research. We develop a new measure of drug novelty that is based on the chemical...
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Developing Novel Drugs 2 02-16
To isolate the causal impact of cash flows on development decisions, we exploit a second source of variation: remaining drug exclusivity (patent life plus additional exclusivity granted by the FDA)....
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Vishal Sikka: Why AI Needs a Broader, More Realistic Approach 02-16
The concept of artificial intelligence (AI), or the ability of machines to perform tasks that typically require human-like understanding, has been around for more than 60 years. But the buzz around AI...
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Behavioral science in business: Nudging, debiasing, and managing the...
Behavioral science has become a hot topic in companies and organizations trying to address the biases that drive day-to-day decisions and actions. Image credit : Shyam's Imagination LibraryAlthough...
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The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels 03-06
Hotels enjoy their highest profits when rooms are most in demand, like during holidays and big events. Unfortunately for them, Airbnb is taking away some of that pricing power, according to new...
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Manmohan Singh donates 3,500 books from his personal library to his alma...
India's former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has donated 3,500 books from his personal collection to his alma mater Panjab University (PU).According to university authorities, the arrangements would...
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Can the Minerva Model of Learning disrupt higher Education...04-14
Traditional universities — including Ivy League schools — fail to deliver the kind of learning that ensures employability. That perspective inspired Ben Nelson, founder and CEO of the six-year-old...
View ArticleA Chink in Bacteria's Armor 04-22
Building the bacterial wall: The blue balls are wall-making proteins. The yellow represents a newly synthesized bacterial cell wall. The green color represents "scaffolding" proteins. Video: Janet...
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Silicon Valley is going back to an ancient technology: People 04-23
Full automation has proven that humans are still better than robots at some tasks. Tech companies have long been valued by investors for their ability to replace employees with technology. Now,...
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The dawn of precision medicine 04-23
Linnea Olson tells her story—of repeatedly facing death, then being saved by the latest precision therapy—articulately and thoughtfully, agreeing to discuss subjects that might otherwise be too...
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This is the relationship between money and happiness 04-25
Can money buy you happiness? It’s a longstanding question that has many different answers, depending on who you ask.Today’s chart approaches this fundamental question from a data-driven perspective,...
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An AI that can predict cell structures 05-12
Fluorescent-labeled cells used to train neural networks. Image: Allen Institute. New 3D models of living human cells generated by machine-learning algorithms are allowing scientists to understand the...
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This “Smart Drug” Could Hack Your Brain Chemistry to Increase Your...
Qualia is a 42 ingredient 'smart drug' designed to provide users with immediate, noticeable uplift of their subjective experience within 20 minutes of taking it, as well as long-term benefits to their...
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For new medicines, turn to pioneers 05-21
Most transformative medicines originate in curiosity-driven science, evidence says....Would we be wise to prioritize “shovel-ready” science over curiosity-driven, fundamental research programs? In the...
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A Resolution Revolution,Single-cell Sequencing Techniques, 05-28
Despite its promise, a lack of spatial-temporal context is one of the challenges to making the most of single-cell analysis techniques. For example, information on the location of cells is particularly...
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