And, in what I hope is my last post on foreign policy realism for the day, I think there’s a general problem with the oft-elided distinction between descriptive and prescriptive realism. Descriptive ...

Diekmann, K. A., A. E. Tenbrunsel, P. P. Shah, H. A. Schroth, and M. H. Bazerman. "The Descriptive and Prescriptive Use of Previous Purchase Price in Negotiation ...

I was watching a short video by Babson College Prof. Thomas Davenport on the Harvard Business Review website recently and found it to be a good, simplified explanation of analytics. (Stop! Don't swipe ...

A review of An English Language Primer Focused on Sri Lanka (Especially for Tamil Readers) by Prof. S.R.H. Hoole. It is said that the first lexicographer Samuel Johnson ushered a new orientation to ...

Actually, we didn’t say it. Bill Haefeli, in a way, did, in this recent cartoon, which caused one of our vigilant readers to take us to task thusly: I was surprised ...

A robot mounts a windshield on a Mercedes Benz A Class on the assembly line at the Daimler AG factory in Rastatt, southwestern Germany, on February 4, 2019. THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP/Getty Images I have to ...

The role of a marketer has changed dramatically over the past two decades. I’ve seen it firsthand, having led marketing teams at technology companies of varying sizes and stages of maturity, from a ...

While predictive analytics have been an ed tech buzzword in recent years, they are but a midpoint in the evolution of data analytics in higher education. What began as descriptive analytics, the ...

Today, organisations across sectors deal with vast quantities of data, ranging from customers’ personal details, browsing habits, and purchasing histories. By leveraging analytics, businesses are able ...