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 […]
The Price Isn’t Right
Stanford Researchers Map Fear And Happiness In Historic London
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 […]
Lack Of Leisure: Is Busyness The New Status Symbol?
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 […]
What’s The Ideal Frequency For A Sales Quota?
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 […]
Vanishing Act: Scientists Find Possible Clue To Disappearing Bees
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 […]
The 20 Best Workplaces In Belgium In 2017 – EASI And Torfs Still At Number One
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 […]
Failing May be Fundamental To Success, According To Columbia Business School
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 […]
Scientists Harness Solar Power To Produce Clean Hydrogen From Biomass
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 […]
Perceived Weight Discrimination Linked To Physical Inactivity
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 […]
Food And Agriculture Expert Louise Fresco: “We Feel Nostalgia For A Non-Existent Past”
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 […]
Research Challenges Idea That Birth Weight Is A Good Proxy For Population Health
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 […]
Hawaiian Biodiversity Has Been Declining For Millions Of Years
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 […]
Norway Takes Top Spot In 2017 World Happiness Report
The World Happiness Report 2017, released today with significant input from LSE’s Professor Richard Layard, includes an analysis of happiness in the workplace for the first time. The report, which ranks 156 […]
Ancient Stardust Sheds Light On The First Stars
A huge mass of glowing stardust in a galaxy seen shortly after the Universe’s formation has been detected by a UCL-led team of astronomers, providing new insights into the birth and explosive […]
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