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| May 6, 2019 | Offices Can Be Hell for People Whose Brains Work Differently | Around two or three times a week, in a small open-plan office in London, Lilith* worked with a computer in her lap, crouching underneath her desk—a rectangular table that six people shared, with short dividers between each station.
“I get e... |
| Feb 18, 2019 | Reading Fuels Empathy. Do Screens Threaten That? | Reading changes our brains. Beyond allowing humans to gather and synthesize new information, research shows it is key to cultivating empathy in individuals, too. One study finds this to be particularly true for fictional stories, which allo... |
| Mar 10, 2018 | Yes, You Need to Network If You Want To Make More Money | This article originally appeared on FREE.
“That’s the end of our event programming—now feel free to enjoy the refreshments and get to know your fellow attendees!”
Do these words conjure up a deep, primal fear that makes you want to run home... |
| Mar 8, 2018 | Yes, You Need to Network If You Want To Make More Money | “That’s the end of our event programming—now feel free to enjoy the refreshments and get to know your fellow attendees!”
Do these words conjure up a deep, primal fear that makes you want to run home and curl up under a blanket?
I’ve been th... |
| Oct 27, 2017 | The behavioural economics of an $1800 iPhone | By Brendan Markey-Towler, The University of Queensland
The latest iPhone is going on pre-sale today for the eye-watering price of around $1800 for 256GB. But who on earth would pay that, and why is Apple charging so much? The answer comes d... |
| Jul 12, 2017 | Augmented Reality: It's Fun And Games Until You Make Your Neighborhood Mad | Do you really need a permit to place virtual objects in a real park? This and other odd dilemmas are emerging with augmented reality (AR), where virtual worlds are colliding with our actual world. |
| Apr 21, 2017 | From hotdesking to dog parks, which office trends should your business follow? | Nobody starts a business and is immediately able to waltz into a shiny high-rise, demanding the entire 31st floor, with a gym and city views. Most of the time, successful ventures begin at kitchen tables or in garages, or at cafe tables as ... |
| Apr 12, 2017 | Who owns the world’s largest corporations? | By David Peetz and Georgina Murray, Griffith University
When people say share ownership is highly diversified, they think most large public corporations have lots of shareholders — and often the largest shareholder has less than 15%, someti... |
| Mar 18, 2017 | 5 Fundamental Principles to Create Stunning Facebook Ads | March 18, 2017 5 min read
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Facebook is the unrivaled king of social media advertising. How could it not be? In terms of features, insights and targeting, it is unparalleled in th... |
| Feb 24, 2017 | What words in your job ad are discouraging more people from applying? | It’s difficult to increase gender diversity in an organisation if few women apply for jobs there in the first place.
But individual choice doesn’t exist in a vacuum — research shows that using more masculine words in a job advertisement, su... |
| Feb 3, 2017 | How virtual reality technology is changing the way students learn | For many years, schools and universities have had to change the way they work and teach in order to fit in with technology.
Software like PowerPoint, for example, which has long been used as an education tool, wasn’t designed for education.... |
| Dec 1, 2016 | Why fintech founders need a social conscience as they recreate the market | Around the world, the financial sector is resurgent and is concocting new financial instruments and markets in which to trade them.
In Australia the market for some financial securities has quintupled in only a year, encouraged by the Austr... |
| Oct 28, 2016 | Australia is at risk of losing migrants who are vital to the health of our economy | By Chris F. Wright, University of Sydney and Stephen Clibborn, University of Sydney
Australia’s immigration system is at risk of losing public confidence, undermining its long running success. The government needs to make policy changes to ... |
| Oct 3, 2016 | How the internet helps us translate “social capital” to economic benefits | By Mohammad Salahuddin, University of Southern Queensland; Clement Tisdell, The University of Queensland; Khorshed Alam, University of Southern Queensland, and Lorelle Burton, University of Southern Queensland
Keeping up with our social net... |
| Sep 28, 2016 | The internet helps us translate ‘social capital’ to economic benefits | By Mohammad Salahuddin, Clement Tisdell, Khorshed Alam and Lorelle Burton
Keeping up with our social networks online helps us get what we want in the short term, but could be worse for our accumulation of “social capital” in the longer term... |
| Sep 14, 2016 | Why we’re more antisocial in a shared office space | By Rachel Morrison
If we all work side by side in an open-plan office or “hot desk”, moving from place to place, it’s sure to increase collaboration! It turns out that may be wrong.
If you don’t have your own space, perhaps you are better o... |
| May 3, 2016 | Apple Pay no sure thing in mobile payments race | Source: Niall Carson/PA Wire
By Steve Worthington, Swinburne University of Technology
When tech giant Apple announced its second quarter earnings of A$14 billion last week, it gave a limited glimpse into its mobile payments service Apple Pa... |
| Mar 9, 2016 | Instagramming Food Is Good For Your Health | One of the most popular and maligned trends to emerge with the advent of the smartphone is taking pictures of food.
Whether it's deconstructed junk food, avocado toast, or just plain old pizza, no meal is too trivial to be photographed from... |
| Feb 1, 2016 | The three things you should never forget as a manager | Researchers at the London School of Economics have for many years been tracking the performance of managers, as rated by the people they manage. And the results are poor, particularly for managers in the UK, France and Australia.
Perhaps th... |
| Jan 7, 2016 | Successful Access to Research pilot leads to extension of service | - From ‘Roman Wales’ to ‘Ebola’: local library users able to continue searching over 10 million academic articles, free-of-charge -
The Access to Research initiative, which gives users in public libraries free access to over 10 million acad... |
| Dec 15, 2015 | How to avoid online identity theft | |
| Dec 2, 2015 | To deliver more high-growth startups Australia needs an entrepreneurship system | “Governments can’t conjure up entrepreneurs. But they can set the conditions under which entrepreneurs flourish,” says Australia’s chief economist Mark Cully.
Cully this week released the government’s sixth Australian Innovation System Repo... |
| Aug 20, 2015 | Elon Musk’s Brave New World: it worked for Henry Ford; why not Tesla? | The share price of Tesla Motors shot up this week after a financial analyst said that the electric vehicle maker is “uniquely positioned to dominate” the auto industry.
Is Tesla, with its tightly integrated supply chain, following the strat... |
| May 24, 2015 | Women In Finance: The Soft Side As A Hard Asset | I recently hosted several craft beer networking gatherings of money managers in Connecticut and New York. It was a great mix of professionals: young ones and old, quick traders and thoughtful investors, macro hedge fund types, quants, and t... |
| Mar 24, 2015 | Information security is not just IT’s problem | Data leakage has become a significant security risk to Australian businesses. A recent global research study conducted by the Ponemon Institute on data leakage found each security incident in Australian organisations cost an average US$2.8 ... |
| Mar 16, 2015 | Primal Marketing: 4 Ways to Create an Instant Connection With Customers | March 16, 2015 5 min read
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Scientists have conducted research for years to unlock the secrets of the human mind -- and more and more marketers are starting to take notice. Here, ... |
| Oct 7, 2014 | Heard@ Techscout 2014: Strategic Venturing and Innovation Excellence | An update on innovation strategy
Another conference on innovation landed last month in Barcelona: the European Networking Group with its Techscout 2014: Strategic Venturing and Innovation Excellence. Open Innovation directors from large co... |
| Jun 2, 2014 | Do Women Leaders Walk a Tightrope to Be Seen as Effective and Likable? | June 2, 2014 5 min read
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Women comprise today more than half of the talent pipeline (holding some 60 percent of graduate degrees), and the majority (64 percent of senior women, a... |
| Mar 20, 2014 | Why You Should Buy Only From Tech Leaders, Not Haters | As annoying as haters are, they’re a leading indicator of success, as I’ve written before. So for the market leader, a gaggle of noisy haters should actually be more comforting than disturbing.
But what about for prospective buyers? Is ther... |
| Nov 5, 2013 | Umair Khan, Application Development Leader (Ephlux) | In the third part of this series, I went back to Ephlux to hear about the hands on mindset utilized by the head of application development for their mega clients such as Disney and Caesars Palace, and how design thinking varies across cultu... |
| Mar 30, 2013 | Strategies For VCs To Increase Startup Success Odds | Editor’s note: David Teten is a partner with ff Venture Capital and founder and chairman of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York. Follow him on his blog or on Twitter @dteten.
Lots of venture capitalists claim to add va... |
| Feb 10, 2010 | Weopia makes virtual dating more personal, less awkward | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Online dating is firmly entrenched as a viable option for meeting potential partners, but it has plenty of drawbacks. Try as they might... |
| Feb 10, 2010 | Weopia makes virtual dating more personal, less awkward | Online dating is firmly entrenched as a viable option for meeting potential partners, but it has plenty of drawbacks. Try as they might, profiles, match quotients, and algorithms can’t do nearly what even a few minutes of face-to-face conve... |
| Service Recovery: Turn unhappy customers into loyal fans | Zero defects are attainable in manufacturing, but not in service delivery systems.
You add the components at the right places in a standardized process and achieve the desired output — impossible to achieve this feat when you’re dealing wit... |
| The Marketing Power of Secure Payments | This story originally appeared on PR Newswire's Small Business PR Toolkit
Secure payments serve a functional purpose in your business, but they can also serve double duty as a marketing benefit -- particularly now that so many customers hav... |
| Head to Head: How Haddad and Bolsonaro Proposals Compare | Turbulent, polarized and contradictory. That’s how 2018 Brazilian general elections will be remembered in the history of the country. Brazilians vote in the runoff this weekend and the proposals of the two running candidates remain unclear.... |
| Control, cost and convenience determine how Australians use the technology in their homes | We have access to plenty of technology that can serve us by automating more of our daily lives, doing everything from adjusting the temperature of our homes to (eventually) putting groceries in our fridges.
But do we want these advancements... |
| Ecommerce Business Models: Which One is Best for Your Store | Ecommerce has surpassed everyone’s expectations. There are multiple entrepreneurs that have created multi-million-dollar businesses based on the ecommerce model. They create, they market, and they deliver. Finally, they become viral and gro... |