Storytelling: The Write Stuff
Analytics Magazine, June 15, 2017
New book, Write to Influence!, explains how to present analytics to a nontechnical audience. Hint: Shorter and clearer is better.
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While generative AI (GenAI) can help define viable objectives for organizational and policy decision-making, the overall quality of those objectives falls short unless humans intervene.
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Travelers systematically give restaurants higher online ratings than locals do, revealing a “tourist bias” that could distort how diners and platforms interpret online reviews.
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Prepopulating e-commerce search bars with trending or personalized keywords can meaningfully increase both purchasing and consumer spending.
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Setting stretch goals can undermine organizational performance
POST Online Media , June 12, 2017
A recent study in the INFORMS journal Organization Science found that, instead of posting performance, setting stretch goals can actually have the opposite effect.
CEOs who appear on CNBC can see their pay rise over $200,000 per year
Knowridge Science Report, June 13, 2017
New research that examined 4,452 CEOs from 2,666 U.S. firms, as well as 104,129 news articles and 6,567 CNBC interviews, found that CEOs who appeared in CNBC interviews could expect their compensation to increase by $210,239 on average, notwithstanding firm performance and other mitigating factors. The study, “The Relationship between CEO Media Appearances and Compensation,” will be published in the upcoming volume of the INFORMS journal Organization Science.
More senior living communities are following in the footsteps of Edelman Award winning Holiday Retirement
McKnight's Senior Living, June 12, 2017
The country's largest senior living operator, Brookdale, is following in the footsteps of the country's largest independent living operator, Holiday Retirement, by rolling out a new pricing model that can tailor rent levels to individual communities and units within them. It's the same pricing system for which Holiday Retirement and Prorize received the 2017 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences in April from INFORMS, an international association for operations research and analytics professionals.
CEO Alert: New research finds CEOs who appear on CNBC tend to see their pay rise by over $200,000 per year compared to other CEOs
News Release, June 12, 2017
CATONSVILLE, MD, June 12, 2017 – New research that examined 4,452 CEOs from 2,666 U.S. firms, as well as 104,129 news articles and 6,567 CNBC interviews, found that CEOs who appeared in CNBC interviews could expect their compensation to increase by $210,239 on average, notwithstanding firm performance and other mitigating factors.
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