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Museums take this educational role seriously, and many institutions understand the need to sustain and broaden their appeal. “They used to be these big ivory towers of knowledge and history and thought and art,” said Hilary Knight, director of Change& in London and former director of digital at Tate. “Museums themselves are changing their role to be centers for discussion and encounter and to be much more participatory.”
American teenagers start their school day too early.
Medical experts have been clear for years: sleep cycle changes during puberty make it hard for teenagers to learn in the early morning. Later school start times have been linked to better sleep, improved mental health, stronger academic performance and even safer driving.
Most school district leaders know about this problem and care about fixing it. But changing the schedule can feel operationally impossible.
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Setting overly ambitious goals doesn't have the positive outcome many organizations are striving for, new research finds. A study recently published in the INFORMS journal Organization Science revealed that, rather than boosting drive and innovation and improving organizational performance, stretch goals more often undermine a company's performance.
The INFORMS Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) credential is a general analytics certification that certifies end-to-end understanding of the analytics process, from framing business and analytic problems to acquiring data, methodology, model building, deployment and model lifecycle management. It requires completion of the CAP exam and adherence to the CAP Code of Ethics.
Michael Armstrong, INFORMS member and professor at Brock University shares the negative impact of greed and unethical behavior on industry, from banking to property development, and how analytics can be used to help, not harm customers.
INFORMS member and University of Toronto professor, Nitin Mehta, discusses a new study he coauthored in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science that investigates the increase in health care costs associated with chronic disease in the context of consumers enrolled in employer sponsored insurance plans.
Business literature is full of leaders preaching about stretch goals. These uncomfortable, seemingly out-of-reach results are supposed to motivate people to do things they never thought they could do. But do they work? The answer is complicated. A new study published in the INFORMS journal Organization Science found that stretch goals motivate a small number of participants.
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