The Find: Recent research reveals almost all of us vastly underestimate the number of people willing to offer help if confronted with a direct request. The Source: New research from Stanford Graduate School of Business reported in the...
The Find: Psychologists to the rescue: researchers have discovered a method that allows people to train themselves to stay alert during boring tasks and seemingly endless meetings. The Source: "Self-Alert Training: Volitional modulation of autonomic arousal improves sustained attention" say that five times fast by Redmond O'Connell...
Under the intriguing title Are Your Prices High Enough? Harvard Business Review senior editor Bronwyn Fryer blogs on the idea that people's expectations about a product influence how they ultimately respond to it. Put two unmarked but identical bottles of wine before your friends. Tell them the...
Stanford professor, Bob Sutton, has built a small industry around telling business people not to be assholes. You can check him out explaining the basic idea of his book, "The No Asshole Rule," in this BNET Book Briefing: working with rude, self-obsessed people isn't just aggravating, it's a drain on...
There was no shortage of brands employing viral marketing in 2007 (here are the top 1o viral videos of the year). Many of these campaigns are genuinely funny, but the question remains, what's the best way to spread a viral campaign as widely as possible? Some hold to the idea...
The results of two interesting social science studies relevant to PR and marketing professionals are out this week. Imagine that when you were small, your mother consistently criticized some aspect of the way you performed or presented yourself. Later you grew up and decided (perhaps after years...
There's a right way and a wrong way to conduct corporate research. As companies like Hewlett Packard, Procter & Gamble, and SAP have learned, doing it the wrong way can be costly — and embarrassing. Pretexting What It Is: Approaching a source for...
Well, the cliché turns out to be true. Bad apples do spoil the barrel. Researchers at the University of Washington’s Business School have released a new study on bad apples in the workplace and found that negative attitudes, chronic unhappiness, and combative co-workers ruin the work environment for everyone. So...
Implementing metric systems for organizational learning in a software development environment remains a challenge. Some researchers state that traditional quality management methods from the assembly line do not apply for knowledge workers, while other researchers point to problems of what specifics should be focused on when implementing metrics systems. In...
University hiring, promotion and tenure decisions make researchers' publication productivity an important issue. This paper reports on data about publication productivity of Information Systems IS researchers from 1999 to 2003. W e collected information about IS papers published in twelve IS journals during this period. After classification, the most productive...
The notorious marketing researcher, Dr. Juggler Vain, credited with sending over 36 creative types to an early grave, was recruited by the C.I.A. Creativity In Advertising to assist them in fending off the vicious "Facts" attacks of researchers. A copy of Dr. Vain's secret Counter-Research Handbook has just come into...
The AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource ACSR is an HIV/AIDS tissue bank consortium sponsored by the National Cancer Institute NCI Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis DCTD. The ACSR offers to approved researchers HIV infected biologic samples and uninfected control tissues including Tissue Cores in Micro-Arrays TMA accompanied by de-identified...
Early researchers accurately predicted that AIDS would have a globally destructive impact. However, other experts erroneously believed that they would be able to develop a vaccine against the virus in a relatively short period. More than twenty years later, scientists continue to work to achieve this goal. This paper addresses...
Genetics, the environment, and inflammation are risk factors for life threatening conditions that include cancers, stroke, heart attack and other cardiovascular diseases, asthma, obesity, and autoimmunity. The available drug delivery systems are not always effective or efficient. MSU researchers are exploring the use of natural, biodegradable materials to carry medicines...
Evaluating the performance of business Web sites has been a constant concern of researchers in different fields. This article presents an approach that contributes to the development of a methodology to assist researchers, developers and managers to establish criteria to evaluate and build digital business environments. Based on a multiple...
This paper, prepared for and funded by the Arthritis Research Campaign arc, presents the results of an evaluation of 16 research grants. The report presents a framework that conceptualizes the relationship between research inputs, process, output and outcomes. The researchers make several conclusions, including that there is a diversity of...
A key focus for management is determining steps that can achieve Productivity Gain - and doing it before the competition. A valuable tool in this quest is Operations Research (O.R.), a field devoted to the creation and management of productivity gain. Operations researchers identify ways to achieve high levels of...
This paper describes a knowledge platform that is designed to support drug discovery researchers in pharmaceutical companies. The core of this platform is a knowledge model that provides a semantically integrated knowledge space for the researchers to easily learn and explore various aspects of biological data that originate from multiple...
The forearm-fingertip temperature gradient is regularly used to assess arterio-venous shunt thermoregulatory vasomotion of patients undergoing anesthesia. These researchers, however, believed that the forearm-fingertip temperature gradient might not be sensitive enough to reflect - accurately and in real time - changes in peripheral perfusion. These researchers were particularly interested in...
The events of September 11, and the strong governmental response, have affected the lives of all Americans. One such response was the enactment of the USA Patriot Act, which among other things, increased the burden on financial institutions to detect and report suspicious financial activities, to "follow the money" to...
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