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Reimagine Sustainability: How to Rethink Sustainability in Luxury?
Welcome to the second episode of our Reimagining Sustainability podcast series! Luxury is often seen as the opposite of sustainability, but what if it could be part of…
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Understanding Switzerland’s real estate transition through building permits
How can we concretely assess the Swiss real estate sector’s progress towards carbon neutrality? By using building permit data. This is the aim of the latest white paper…
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With the SCALE room, HEC Lausanne redefines its learning space in futuristic mode
What if a classroom could be transformed into an interaction laboratory? At HEC Lausanne, the SCALE (Student Centered and Active Learning Environment) room embodies this strategic shift: reinventing…
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How to combat fake news and disinformation
Fake news is an insidious and global epidemic. Intentionally posted false content, referred to as disinformation, is now widespread across digital and traditional media formats. It is also…
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Polarization, Identity, and Sustainability: An Evolutionary Puzzle
Welcome to our new Reimagining Sustainability podcast series! Sustainability is more than just making greener choices—it’s deeply tied to identity and societal divides. Why do behaviors like reducing…
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Reimagining Data series: Open source and cloud platforms, the winning duo to boost your business
In the third post of reimagining data, our academics show that organisations can leverage data by combining cloud computing and open-source software to achieve a competitive advantage. The…
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Reimagining Data series: Innovating with data has multiple benefits
In the second post of reimagining data, our academics look at how data innovations in one area of a business can help transform other areas. For instance, innovations…
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Sustainability challenges facing real estate investment vehicles in Switzerland
The Center for Risk Management Lausanne (CRML) at HEC Lausanne (UNIL) highlights the sustainability challenges facing Swiss real estate investment vehicles (REIVs) in its new white paper with…
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AI as a Tool for Human Skill Development
[source : Edge Magazine] Can artificial intelligence help us become better leaders, communicators, and collaborators? While AI is often seen as a threat to human jobs, Marianne Schmid…
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The CREA Institute measures the economic impact of UNIL
The CREA Institute of Applied Economics at HEC Lausanne (UNIL) was mandated to assess the economic impact of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) on the canton of Vaud.…
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Reimagine series: Data – Unleashing the power of organisational data
In the first post of reimagining data, our academics at HEC Lausanne (UNIL) look at the power of data, which is fast evolving from a byproduct to a…
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How Trade Sanctions Reshaped Russia’s Economy
Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Assistant Professor of Economics at HEC Lausanne (UNIL), recently shared her insights on the economic impact of the 2022 trade sanctions on Russia in an interview…
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Reimagine Series: Healthcare – Shadow health data is a significant threat
In the fourth post of reimagining healthcare, our academics look at data privacy and health. The volume of health data is growing, the healthcare industry alone generates 30%…
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Reimagine Series: Healthcare – Invest in health and reduce social unrest
In this third post of reimagining healthcare, Prof. Dominic Rohner, HEC Lausanne (UNIL) looks at how conflict is linked to the health of a population. If nations invest…
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Reimagine Series: Healthcare – Coping with the shifting burden of disease
In the second post of our series, reimagining healthcare, Prof. Jürgen Maurer, HEC Lausanne (UNIL) focuses on the epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart attacks, cancers…
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Reimagine Series: Healthcare – Is it time to put a price on life ?
In a new series we look at how our researchers are rethinking some of the biggest challenges that humanity faces. Healthcare is a big issue. Increasing healthcare costs…
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Machine learning in comics
Is it really possible to explain machine learning in a simple and entertaining way? Gautier Stauffer, professor at HEC Lausanne (UNIL), and his co-authors have taken up the…
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PRESS index: A new standard for sustainable real estate investment
The Center for Risk Management at Lausanne (CRML) at HEC Lausanne (UNIL) introduces the PRESS index (Public Real Estate Sustainability Switzerland), the first public sustainability index for real…
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Greenwashing – A form of cheating in economics
Finance Prof. Éric Jondeau from HEC Lausanne addresses the issue of greenwashing in a new podcast series by the University of Lausanne (UNIL), titled “Are you cheating?”. This…
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Retr’aide: an innovative initiative to reduce healthcare costs
At HEC Lausanne (UNIL), the entrepreneurial spirit is strongly encouraged, and many students and graduates are coming up with solutions to meet the challenges facing our society. Among…
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What is the peace formula for curbing armed conflict and achieving lasting peace?
Dominic Rohner, Professor of Economics at HEC Lausanne (UNIL), recently joined a VoxTalks Economics podcast to explore the crucial role of economics in fostering and sustaining peace. In…
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Age diversity statements change workplace behavior
The issue The workforce across the developed world is now older than at any point in history. In the last decade, the average labour-force participation rate of 55-…
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Is it time to rethink Big Tech’s acquisition model?
The issue The proportion of software startups that are acquired instead of going public has grown over the last few decades. Big Tech, with large cash reserves, as…
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Why do some organizations turn to the dark side?
Immoral behavior and corporate scandals: Guido Palazzo, Professor of Business Ethics at HEC Lausanne (UNIL), has made this his hobbyhorse for decades. Through his research, he aims to…
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Managing the Grand Challenges with innovation and technology
How can we help international organizations become more effective in managing major challenges (such as poverty or access to healthcare)? What are the levers that can help? In…
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ESG practices in the Swiss real estate market: new evaluation of 128 investment vehicles
The Center for Risk Management at Lausanne (CRML) at HEC Lausanne (UNIL), in collaboration with Quanthome SA, has published the latest results of its tool for assessing the…
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For an analysis of peace factors in the world
How can we avoid violence, war and armed conflict? What factors can help foster peace? Discover the fascinating work of Prof. Dominic Rohner in the 2nd episode of…
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How to model extreme events
Welcome to our new series of videos “Décrypté”, immersing you in the pioneering spirit of HEC Lausanne and its researchers. What research topics are explored at HEC Lausanne…
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Finfluencers: lucky trend setters or skilled financial experts?
Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast series: Digital Revolution Trends! Join us as we explore the intriguing world of financial influencers, also known as finfluencers, with…
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Successfully deploying AI in business needs good design principles
AI technologies, particularly generative AI, are growing in power, use and utility. As tools become democratised and affordable there’s a need for good design principles, especially as generative…
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Exploring new ways of teaching financial accounting
Conceived by Prof. Garen Markarian, Faculty of HEC (UNIL), a pedagogical innovation project has just been launched in the rather rigid field of financial accounting. Thanks in particular…
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HEC Lausanne researchers will assess the risk of collisions in space
The number of commercial satellites in low Earth orbit continues to grow, increasing the risk of space debris. Assessing the risk of conjunctions – those critical moments when…
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Are ESG Criteria effective?
In this series of podcasts produced by Enterprise for Society Center (E4S), discover different perspectives on ESG criteria from two professors at HEC Lausanne (UNIL). Dive first into…
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Cyberbullying and the impact of personal information disclosure
Welcome to the second episode of our Digital Revolution Trends podcast series! Delve into this insightful conversation with Dr. Kavous Salehzadeh Niksirat on the critical issue of cyberbullying…
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How can recalibrating models shape climate change mitigation?
Simon Scheidegger is an Associate Professor of Economics at HEC Lausanne (UNIL) and E4S researcher. In this research snapshot, Prof. Scheidegger explores climate mitigation strategies. Potential errors are…
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Data inputs must be the focus of AI and its regulation
The world’s first ever law on artificial intelligence or AI looks set to be adopted by the European Union parliament this year. The AI Act is the first…
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Why do we need better end-of-life literacy?
End-of-life health literacy matters. In Switzerland, Europe, and much of the developed world, populations are ageing. At the same time, more people are living longer with more chronic…
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Netiquette as Digital Social Norms
Welcome to our new Digital Revolution Trends podcast series! Digital media impacts almost every aspect of life today. It brings with it convenience and a host of other…
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Why does the U.S. dollar remain supreme?
If you think that the U.S dollar is losing its pre-eminence worldwide, think again. The international monetary system still functions through the so-called Imperial Circle,’ beholden to the…
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5 Pillars for Democratizing Data at Your Organization
Source : Original and full article published in Harvard Business Review With a growing need to leverage data & analytics for competitive advantage, and Generative AI on the rise…
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How to increase the chances of obtaining financing from a venture capital firm?
Professor at HEC Lausanne, Jeffrey S. Petty, and his co-authors Marc Gruber, EPFL and Dietmar Harhoff, Max Planck Institute, leverage unique access to VC deal flow data to…
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Can NFTs Support Organizing in the Future of Work?
Emerging technologies are constantly evolving and shape how we organize work within organizations. Building upon design principles of decentralized autonomous organizations, the Point of View article of Yash Raj…
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Does Clean Energy Mean Expensive Energy?
Sébastien Houde is an Associate Professor of Environmental Economics at HEC Lausanne (UNIL). In this episode of Perspectives by Enterprise for Society Center (E4S), solutions are adressed to…
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How to help new entrepreneurs find and buy a business in Europe?
First-time entrepreneurs can use the ‘search fund’ model, developed in the US, to help them find and buy a business in Europe. But they must be prepared to…
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Launch of a new method to assess the ESG practices of Swiss real estate funds
In the pursuit of 2050 global sustainability goals, the real estate sector emerges as a critical player, contributing nearly 40% to Switzerland’s total energy consumption. While energy efficiency…
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E4S : New research “The Swiss market of green bonds: breaking down the barriers to scale”
Green bonds can foster financial flows towards environmental projects and are subject to a growing interest in Switzerland. Green bonds are used to finance projects with a positive…
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Unravelling the paradox: Green preferences sustain greenwashing
We often hear that we as consumers have the responsibility and the power to support reaching the Sustainable Development Goals with our consumption decisions. This might be possible…
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Why building a nation matters
From Syria to Libya, Somalia to Yemen, more than 50 nations are failing states. This is a trigger for mass migration, conflict, extremism or the inability to cope…
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MICRO vs. MACRO: Why is climate change also an economic question?
Get ready for an eye-opening discussion! In this video, our experts Sébastien Houde and Brendan Berthold tackle the question: Why is climate change also an economic issue? They…
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Private Equity: Greenwashing Galore
We are awash with ESG slogans – companies often include a glorified caption of how they care about their employees, environment and our children’s future. This has reached…
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Price and prejudice: Asylum seekers and housing rents
[Podcast] Opposition to asylum seekers has become a political and social media hot button issue in every high-income country. But does their presence also depress rental values for…
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HEC Lausanne welcomes its new students under the banner of innovation
“HEC Onboarding Days” to integrate students into their new environment, familiarize them with HEC values and make them aware of the major challenges of our century; a bilingual…
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Buzz around ChatGPT
No need to introduce ChatGPT, the new technological star that talks to you as a human would via Whatsapp or Telegram. Whatever the subject, the flow of its…
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Quelles sont les retombées économiques de la culture lausannoise subventionnée ?
[article disponible en français] Les résultats de l’étude du CREA démontrent le rôle essentiel de la culture pour l’économie du Canton de Vaud. La culture lausannoise subventionnée génère…
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Importance of our connection to nature to engage in pro-environmental actions
Almost three planet Earth would be needed if everyone lived like the Swiss population. The imbalance between Switzerland’s higher ecological footprint and our planetary boundaries has existed for…
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Pricing and restoring natural capital: a case study on mining and vegetation
Natural resources often come for free to the companies that use them. Natural resources have a large economic value. For example, pollination enables between US$235 and US$577 billions…
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Immersive virtual reality helps to promote pro-environmental behavioural strategies
The issue The main challenge of the 21st century is to reduce greenhouse gas emission. The adoption of pro-environmental behaviours contributes to tackling climate change. Most of the…
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Improving CSR Reporting and reducing greenwashing – a new approach
In their paper ‘The end of greenwashing? A Renewed Infrastructure for CSR Information in the New Normal‘?’, Janet Su, PhD and Prof. Gaia Melloni, both at HEC Lausanne…
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Innovation for Happiness, a pioneering program at HEC Lausanne
Exploring the different dimensions of happiness, understanding what makes us happy in order to reinvent our way of life, the way companies and start-ups are managed, and their…
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The diminishing CO2 impact of Swiss real estate investments
Greenhouse gas emissions from buildings owned by Swiss real estate investment vehicles fell by around 10% in 2021 on the previous year. According to the second annual study…
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Improving the performance of bond portfolios by combining machine learning and economics
From healthcare to marketing, IT to transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning are disrupting the business world. Financial services is no exception. Making more sense of factor investing…
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Connected watches and privacy: risks, dangers and data protection
The issue While devices such as wearable activity trackers or connected watches contribute to a better quality of life, they also raise serious privacy issues. When you wear…
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L’UNIL se dote d’un centre d’expertise dédié aux extrêmes climatiques
[article disponible en français] Unique en Suisse, l’ECCE (Expertise Center for Climate Extremes) sera lancé le 1er mars par la Faculté des hautes études commerciales et la Faculté des…
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HEC Lausanne launches its research center to respond to our society’s major challenges
The Faculty of Business and Economics (UNIL) pursues and strengthens its commitment to sustainability with its new “HEC Research Center for Grand Challenges” (RCGC). Relying on the multitude…
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ChatGPT in the world of work
In this new podcast, let’s discuss this subject which is on the forefront with Yash Raj Shrestha, our assistant professor at HEC Lausanne. Yash’s combination of technical computer…
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HEC Lausanne introduces French-English bilingualism as a free choice in its Bachelor programs
The HEC Faculty of the University of Lausanne will offer, as of the beginning of the 2023 academic year, French-English bilingualism for its Bachelor’s degree programs in economics…
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Climate Policy Risk and Asset Prices in Switzerland
February 2023 | Do Swiss investors care about the risks of the ecological transition?
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Two professors at HEC Lausanne imagine a new way to learn a foreign language
One of the most stimulating ways to learn or improve a foreign language is to immerse into articles or videos that relate to topics we are passionate about.…
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Swissjobtracker.ch: a new online index of the job market evolution
The swissjobtracker.ch platform is the result of a collaborative effort between HEC Lausanne at the University of Lausanne, KOF at ETH Zurich and the private company x28 AG,…
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Wealth inequality: Parental influence on attitudes to financial risk taking
The Issue Wealth inequality is a major global issue – the richest 10% of the world’s’ population hold some 75% of all wealth. One important factor is stock…
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The causal effects of public policy on individual behavior
“As a result of covid, the job market has changed. […] we have to choose our future job.”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of Urban Low Emission Zones
The Issue Until electric cars become commonplace, vehicles with internal combustion engines will remain a major contributor to air pollution. The UN predicts that some 70% of the…
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180 seconds to talk about research popularization
Maud Goutte, PhD Student in Finance at HEC Lausanne, SFI and MT180 UNIL finalist & Quentin Gallea, researcher and lecturer at Enterprise for Society and Social Media contents…
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Gaming the system: improving fairness in matching markets
The Issue – Designing fair markets While price is the main mechanism for allocating goods and services in a free market economy, there are some situations where the…
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How to Harness Open Technologies for Digital Platform Advantage
Open Technologies: Why businesses should play “the Digital Commons Ecosystem Game” The issue The next steps of digital transformation will definitively be driven thanks to open technologies hardware…
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How much of a risk are we taking with smart homes?
The Issue – How do smart technologies create or alter risks in the home Smart homes may sound exciting with new technologies enabling devices that can cover everything…
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How some websites spy on us
The Issue – Thousands of popular websites covertly harvest personal information typed into forms without users’ consent When you’re filling in a form on a website, it may…
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Linkedin for job-seekers : from research to practical insights
Professor Franciska Krings, expert in workforce diversity and discrimination at HEC Lausanne (UNIL), met Robin van Känel, Director of Ricochets, an agency in Lausanne specialized in Linkedin communication,…
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Regulating digital technologies: Lessons from the GDPR
The Issue – regulating digital technologies Regulators are increasingly enacting laws and putting forward policy guidelines and regulatory proposals for digital markets and the European Union plays a…
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Taxation of multinationals: what are the new rules of the game?
HEC Podcast – Are you interested in the decisions taken at the last G7 and G20 regarding the taxation of multinationals at a minimum rate of at least 15%?
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Left in the dark: Why transparency isn’t always best for institutionalizing corporate responsibility
Transparency is usually seen as integral to corporate responsibility best practice. It allows closer scrutiny of those firms claiming CR credentials. But, if we want optimal outcomes in…
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Motivation matters: The importance of intrinsic motivation in behavioral change app design
Designing a mobile app to help create lasting changes in behavior is a difficult challenge. New research suggests that a measure of motivation – the Intrinsic Motivation Index…
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Short, simple and assured: Making integrated reporting pay
Integrated reporting provides a more holistic representation of a firm’s activities, combining key financial and non-financial information, including environmental and social details. Better still, research by Gaia Melloni…
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Changing behavior: Harnessing the power of social influence
Whether it is trying to increase the welfare of citizens through public policy, or adapting organizational culture to a new business environment, changing behavior is one of the…
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Small numbers, larger mistakes: How number bias affects investor information
Advice and information provided by stock analysts, such as target prices and recommendations, have a powerful influence on investor decisions. However, new research shows that the way the…
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The economic cycle of fear: Will panic fuel the next global recession?
As President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously once observed: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. At the tail of end of an historic bull market,…
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Multimodality, ridesharing, and collaboration: Operations optimization and the future of transportation
Like many other sectors, the world of transportation is experiencing a period of profound disruption. From the sharing economy to mobility-as-a-service, autonomous vehicles to solid state batteries, new…
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How the Camorra is cleaning up: A grubby tale of entrepreneurial talent gone to waste
Guido Palazzo, professor of business ethics, highlights a case where entrepreneurial ingenuity has turned environmentally and socially toxic, threatening the health and economic welfare of thousands of people…
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The Facebook effect: How Facebook browsing shapes the consumer decision making process
Marketers are well aware that social media sites can play a role in influencing consumers, whether it is through product endorsement or building customer loyalty, for example. However,…
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War and peace: The case for power sharing
There has long been an association between politics and violence. Factional disagreements can often lead to prolonged violence. At the same time, there is apparent evidence that the…
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Beyond life expectancy: A different approach to comparing the impact of life saving measures on future demographics
Making accurate predictions about population trends is difficult. However a good grasp of demographic trends is also essential both for policymakers and many companies. Changes in Iife expectancy…
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Effective data Management in a digitally driven world
In this Q&A, Christine Legner talks about the Competence Center Corporate Data Quality (CC CDQ), the data excellence model that the consortium has produced, and the need for…
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The leadership IQ dilemma: when super smart people are perceived as ineffective leaders
General intelligence is an essential characteristic for good leadership. Research by John Antonakis and colleagues on the relationship between IQ and perceptions of effective leadership reveals that a…
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The DNA of war: Deciphering the economic causes and consequences of conflict
When we think about the consequences of war we tend to think about the immediate casualties, the lost lives and the injured. Yet war also has many debilitating…
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Business by design: The value proposition challenge
Developing a new business idea is notoriously difficult. Start-up failure statistics are discouraging – some 90 per cent of all new ventures fail, about 40 per cent of…
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Tales of the unexpected: understanding risk at the extremes
Business as usual is the normal state affairs, and the world that managers and policymakers operate within most of the time. Occasionally, however, that world is shaken by…
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Time is money: calculating lead time value in SCM
Deciding optimal supply chain lead times involves calculating a number of difficult tradeoffs. New research makes that calculation a lot easier, allowing firms to gain a more precise…