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UrduThe ‘greenconsumption effect’ can change the way retailers provide goods and services, says Onur Bodur
Tag: BUSINESS/ECONOMICS
Concordia research shows that using green products leads to a warm glow in shoppers
The ‘greenconsumption effect’ can change the way retailers provide goods and services, says Onur Bodur
New tool to predict the global spread of dengue
Researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, QUT and Queensland Health have developed a new tool to predict the global spread of human infectious diseases, like dengue, and track them to their source.The tool draws on travel data from the…
Incumbent CEOs working with new CFOs earn 10% more money
Newly hired CFOs may face pressure to manage earnings to bump CEO pay
A new way to measure long-term firm performance and shareholder value
INSEAD and Wharton introduce LIVA: A metric that gauges the true impact of investment or strategic action on shareholder value
How to boost sales of fair trade and sustainable goods
News from the Journal of Marketing
New tool to predict the global spread of dengue
Researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, QUT and Queensland Health have developed a new tool to predict the global spread of human infectious diseases, like dengue, and track them to their source.The tool draws on travel data from the…
Incumbent CEOs working with new CFOs earn 10% more money
Newly hired CFOs may face pressure to manage earnings to bump CEO pay
A new way to measure long-term firm performance and shareholder value
INSEAD and Wharton introduce LIVA: A metric that gauges the true impact of investment or strategic action on shareholder value
How to boost sales of fair trade and sustainable goods
News from the Journal of Marketing
Multi-sensor drone technology for plant phenotyping receives $4.5 million
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University-affiliated agbioscience startup is creating technology to help meet the growing global demand for bioenergy and, in partnership with Purdue, has received new support from the U.S. government. GRYFN offers precise geomatics solutions for…
Multi-sensor drone technology for plant phenotyping receives $4.5 million
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University-affiliated agbioscience startup is creating technology to help meet the growing global demand for bioenergy and, in partnership with Purdue, has received new support from the U.S. government. GRYFN offers precise geomatics solutions for…
Nature Research and Merck establish The Spinoff Prize
Applications are now open for The Spinoff Prize — a new award for visionary, science- based companies that are on their way to making a commercial impact; winning Spinoff to receive a prize of €30,000; applications open until Feb 28, 2020
This ‘fix’ for economic theory changes everything from gambles to Ponzi schemes
Whether we decide to take out that insurance policy, buy Bitcoin, or switch jobs, many economic decisions boil down to a fundamental gamble about how to maximize our wealth over time. How we understand these decisions is the subject of…
Nature Research and Merck establish The Spinoff Prize
Applications are now open for The Spinoff Prize — a new award for visionary, science- based companies that are on their way to making a commercial impact; winning Spinoff to receive a prize of €30,000; applications open until Feb 28, 2020
This ‘fix’ for economic theory changes everything from gambles to Ponzi schemes
Whether we decide to take out that insurance policy, buy Bitcoin, or switch jobs, many economic decisions boil down to a fundamental gamble about how to maximize our wealth over time. How we understand these decisions is the subject of…
Study: Student attitudes toward cheating may spill over into their careers
Lam Family College of Business professor hopes to stamp out unethical behavior before it enters the workplace
Patient’s place of residence matters when choosing cost-effective anticoagulation therapy
Appropriately selected anticoagulation therapy can help to reduce the medical costs of patients suffering from atrial fibrillation. A new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that direct oral anticoagulants can be a more cost-effective alternative than traditional warfarin…
UK science engineering company ready to take Purdue heating technology to the market
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A novel heating technology based on materials commonly used in the aerospace industry soon may be helping doctors, forensic scientists and automobile manufacturers. Alconbury Weston Limited, a science-engineering company based in the United Kingdom, has licensed…
UK science engineering company ready to take Purdue heating technology to the market
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A novel heating technology based on materials commonly used in the aerospace industry soon may be helping doctors, forensic scientists and automobile manufacturers. Alconbury Weston Limited, a science-engineering company based in the United Kingdom, has licensed…
2020 DRI Nevada Medal of Science to honor Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space
RENO, Nev. (Nov. 25, 2019) – The Desert Research Institute (DRI) is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, a distinguished scientist, astronaut, explorer and author of “Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention” as the recipient…
Studying South-East Asian transition economies is a success story of EU-funded research
The focus of Project IKID is the economic transition in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam – some of the globally fastest growing economies in South-East Asia. The key idea is to study the challenges and opportunities of development into knowledge based…
FAU receives $1.3 million grant from Florida Division Of Emergency Management
FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science and FDEM project will create framework for flood risk management
Industry executives: Profits drive rising prices for MS drugs
Study provides insight about drug industry price-setting
Flour power: How shoppers choose which bread to buy
What drives our decision-making when products have multiple features and benefits?
2020 DRI Nevada Medal of Science to honor Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space
RENO, Nev. (Nov. 25, 2019) – The Desert Research Institute (DRI) is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, a distinguished scientist, astronaut, explorer and author of “Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention” as the recipient…
Studying South-East Asian transition economies is a success story of EU-funded research
The focus of Project IKID is the economic transition in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam – some of the globally fastest growing economies in South-East Asia. The key idea is to study the challenges and opportunities of development into knowledge based…
FAU receives $1.3 million grant from Florida Division Of Emergency Management
FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science and FDEM project will create framework for flood risk management
Industry executives: Profits drive rising prices for MS drugs
Study provides insight about drug industry price-setting
NJIT’s Chrystoff Camacho wins an Edison patent award for an aerial reforestation device
Chrystoff Camacho, an inventor and budding entrepreneur who developed an aerial reforestation device while he was an engineering technology student at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), received a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the Research & Development Council…
Wendy’s named 2019-2020 HRM Impact Award Winner
SHRM, SIOP, and their foundations to award organizations that are improving Human Resource management practices
Cybershoppers make better buying decisions on PCs than phones — Ben-Gurion U. researchers
BEER-SHEVA, Israel…November 21, 2019 – This holiday shopping season, consumers may make better shopping decisions using their PCs rather than smart phones or other mobile devices, according to new research from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. “The issue is not…
The landscape market has a category for any activity level
Consumers are evaluated on an active/passive continuum
The landscape market has a category for any activity level
Consumers are evaluated on an active/passive continuum
Nine young scientists obtain funding from Russian Foundation for Basic Research
The allocated sums are 4 to 6 million rubles, and the duration is 2 years
Who is left behind in Mass Drug Administration?
Ensuring equity in the prevention of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is critical to reach NTD elimination goals as well as to inform Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Now, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases have unmasked inequities in the delivery…
Financial therapy can aid well-being, stability
Researchers are trying to grow this specialized type of counseling
Survey: Most teenagers in legalized states see marijuana marketing on social media
UMass Amherst researcher says more restrictions needed to protect youth
New report: The impact of energy booms on local workers
A new IZA World of Labor report publishing today finds energy booms create a broad set of benefits for local workers in the short term including lower unemployment and higher wages. But there are externalities to consider and the long…
UK Study: Lack of economic support hinders cognitive abilities of children of single mothers
Over the last 60 years, the percentage of children in the United Kingdom living in homes headed by a single mother has risen steadily. A new study examined how the impact of single motherhood on children’s verbal cognitive abilities has…
Government integrity holds key to tackling corporate corruption — study
Government leaders must set a good example to the business community if they want to eliminate corporate corruption, a new study reveals. Financial incentives and criminal punishment will not root out corrupt business practices, but a government culture of honesty,…
Decarbonizing the power sector
Renewable energy offers most benefits for health and environment
Decarbonizing the power sector
Renewable energy offers most benefits for health and environment
Opening Medicare to Americans aged 50 to 64 would cut their insurance costs
But study finds the move would drive up insurance costs for younger Americans
King’s College AI-Longevity Hub launched via support of Biogerontology Research Foundation
The UK’s first AI for Longevity hub — the Longevity AI Consortium — is launched at King’s College London with the strategic and financial support of the Biogerontology Research Foundation and Deep Knowledge Ventures
Job losses during the Great Recession may be responsible for decline in US birth rates
Study uses longer-term individual and household data on fertility and the recession
Opening Medicare to Americans aged 50 to 64 would cut their insurance costs
But study finds the move would drive up insurance costs for younger Americans
King’s College AI-Longevity Hub launched via support of Biogerontology Research Foundation
The UK’s first AI for Longevity hub — the Longevity AI Consortium — is launched at King’s College London with the strategic and financial support of the Biogerontology Research Foundation and Deep Knowledge Ventures
Job losses during the Great Recession may be responsible for decline in US birth rates
Study uses longer-term individual and household data on fertility and the recession
Paper: Outcomes vary for workers who ‘lawyer up’ in employment arbitration disputes
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Conventional wisdom dictates that workers who “lawyer up” in workplace disputes would be more likely to improve their chances at securing a better outcome, but in an alternative dispute resolution context such as arbitration, employers can all…