Conference call tone predicts future earnings and uncertainty. “Tone disappointment” (excessive negativity) predicts more strongly than “…
Operations managers do not typically have full information about the demand distribution. Recognizing this, data-driven
approaches have…
How can we intervene in the systemic bureaucratic dysfunction that beleaguers the public sector? De Jong examines the roots of this…
Mancur Olson offered us big thoughts on big subjects. Today, he might well attack the problem
of climate change and the current failure of…
Should China build mega-cities or a network of linked middle-sized
metropolises? Can Europe’s mid-sized cities compete with global…
We often observe that more successful efforts to establish complex state capabilities are problem driven; focused relentlessly on solving a…
Efforts to build state capability often take the form of commonly used, highly designed and engineered best practice solutions that have…
New, “big” data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome
variables higher frequencies and finer geographic scales than…
Asking students to raise their hands is a time-honored feedback mechanism in education. Hand raising allows the teacher to assess to what…