NASA has selected a science mission that will measure emissions from the interstellar medium, which is the cosmic material found between stars. This data will help scientists determine the life cycle of […]
NASA has selected a science mission that will measure emissions from the interstellar medium, which is the cosmic material found between stars. This data will help scientists determine the life cycle of […]
Date: 2 April 2017 Topic: The Oxford Cambridge Boat Race Lunch / The Business of Rowing Venue: Private Public: By invitation only
Offers by retailers to ‘beat the price’ of rivals, while costly, are no more effective than ‘price-matching’ offers, says new academic study. Costly offers by retailers to “beat the price” of competitors […]
A digital humanities team sifts through two centuries of British novels and geography to see how London’s readers felt about different parts of their city. Maps help us locate landmarks and can […]
Long gone are the days when a life of material excess and endless leisure time signified prestige. According to a new study from Professor Silvia Bellezza of Columbia Business School, Americans increasingly […]
Sales reps feed on two forms of compensation: salary, and a bonus tied to achieving a periodic quota. Would a more frequent quota incentivize better numbers? Doug Chung and Das Narayandas offer […]
In the winter of 2004/05, many beekeepers across America went to check on their honeybee hives and were shocked to find most of the adult bees had vanished, leaving behind the queen […]
Last week the best workplaces in Belgium were announced – and EASI and Torfs lead the top ten Best Workplaces in Belgium in 2017 for the third and fourth year in a row […]
Few companies or organizations are looking to fail when they plot a new strategy. However, turning a blind eye to the possibility that a strategy may fail can have disastrous consequences. According […]
A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has developed a way of using solar power to generate a fuel that is both sustainable and relatively cheap to produce. It’s using […]
People who feel that they have been discriminated against because of their weight are much less likely to be physically active than people who don’t perceive that they have suffered any such […]
Small-scale agriculture: appealing though it may sound, it’s not going to feed the world. The Dutch professor and author Louise O. Fresco does not fight shy of speaking the – sometimes counterintuitive […]
Despite dramatic improvements in human health, babies’ average birth-weights have not increased over the last 150 years reveals new research from LSE. The paper, published in the journal Social Science and Medicine […]
Hawaii’s unique animal and plant diversity has been declining on all but the Big Island for millions of years, long before humans arrived, according to a new analysis of species diversity on […]