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Avoid self-handicapping at work, advises management professor
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Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you're looking to keep your job in these tough economic times, you might want to avoid talking about how your firm's cutbacks will make it harder for you to do your work. That's because those who regularly ...
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Gender stereotypes contradicted when negotiating
Aug 07, 2008 |
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A common gender stereotype assumes that men are more aggressive and women are more emotional. In negotiation, men are assumed to be more assertive and women better at fostering relationships. However, a new study published ...
Management consultants are often 'more project workers than ideas people'
Aug 01, 2007 |
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The popular impression that management consultants are key to spreading new ideas in organisations is exaggerated and misleading, according to a unique fly-on-the-wall study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council ...
Brainstorming works best in less specialized efforts, study says
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Dec 10, 2009 |
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Applying brainstorming techniques to new product development works best when the collaboration employs participants from varied specialties gathering to develop a less complex product, according to the Management Insights ...
Pension fund switch to decentralized management right way to go, landmark study finds
Dec 15, 2009 |
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As pension funds have grown and become increasingly complex many have turned to using multiple, often pricier specialist managers to steer their investment decisions.
3 Questions: Henry Jacoby on Copenhagen
Dec 09, 2009 |
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The co-director of MIT’s Global Change program discusses what to expect from the U.N. Climate Change Conference, and the effects of 'Climategate.'
Smashing trash with solar power
Dec 21, 2009 |
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They seem to turn heads wherever they're installed: new solar-powered trash compactors that are meant to save time and energy.
Researchers find saying 'I'm sorry' influences jurors
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Aug 24, 2009 |
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Apologizing for negative outcomes -- a practice common even with children -- may lead to more favorable verdicts for auditors in court, according to researchers at George Mason University and Oklahoma State University. The ...
Seattle paper may have digital future
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Time is running out for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, whose publisher, the Hearst Corp., plans to close the money-losing newspaper if a buyer is not found by next week.
Program helps improve management of chronic pain
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Patients with chronic pain who took part in a collaborative care intervention that included patient and clinician education and symptom monitoring and feedback to the primary care physician had improvements in pain-related ...
Early scents really do get 'etched' in the brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Common experience tells us that particular scents of childhood can leave quite an impression, for better or for worse. Now, researchers reporting the results of a brain imaging study online on November 5th ...
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