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Research from the Business School (formerly Cass) suggests that observing others decision-making can teach people to make better decisions themselves.
The research, co-authored by Professor Irene Scopelliti, Professor of Marketing and Behavioural Science, tested the effectiveness of a new debiasing training strategy and reports first evidence that watching others make decisions can improve our own decision making.
The authors carried out three experiments, which involved participants making a set of judgements before and after a training intervention designed to improve their decision-making.
Experiment One: comparing observational learning to other common debiasing strategies
The first experiment compared observational learning to three other interventions known to reduce cognitive bias. Researchers tested participants susceptibility to common decision-making biases across three scales, with participants receiving one of four debiasing interventions before repeating
Virginia Tech Joins the online MBA bandwagon
News Highlights: Virginia Tech Joins the online MBA bandwagon
Virginia Tech enters the online MBA market with a $ 58,000 offering that will welcome its first cohort in July 2021
After finishing his full-time MBA program eight years ago, Virginia TechPamplin’s College of Business has become the latest business school to launch an online MBA option. The new $ 58,000 program will enroll its first cohort in July and expects to attract an inaugural class of 20 to 40 students, but eventually hopes to expand the offering to hundreds of students.
Pamplin is joining a very competitive and messy market with at least 350 other online MBA offerings in the US alone. In the recently published US News rankings of online MBA options, the magazine placed numerical ranks at 295 online MBA programs, but lists 324 online MBA programs. There are already more than a dozen online MBAs at universities in Virginia, including the highly regarded long-dista
Watch the six finalist teams of the inaugural John R. Lewis Racial Justice Case Competition present their respective recommendations to the competition’s corporate partners and esteemed judges for a chance to win up to $20,000. Audience members will also be able to vote for the presentation they feel is the most innovative and will have the most impact.
In response to the national reckoning in 2020 over racial inequities and deaths of George Floyd and others, students at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School led the creation of a case competition honoring the late John R. Lewis (1940-2020), the civil rights icon and U.S. Representative from Georgia’s 5th district.
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Investing for inflation means choosing assets that keep pace with rising prices - here s how to inflation hedge to protect your wealth
Investing for inflation means choosing assets that keep pace with rising prices - here s how to inflation hedge to protect your wealth
Ramsay LewisJan 16, 2021, 05:18 IST
If your money isn t earning a return, inflation will eventually erode its buying power. Certain investments can be inflation hedges though, offering growth or income to beat an inflationary environment.PeopleImages/Getty Images
Inflation (rising prices) lowers the value of cash savings and fixed-income investments.
Investing for inflation involves picking assets that appreciate, are tangible, or pay variable interest.
The Straits Times
Firms distancing themselves from US leader cautiously
Like the powerful, evil wizard Voldemort in a Harry Potter book, Mr Donald Trump was the protagonist who was not named, even as most of the big US companies condemned last week s assault on the US centre of government. PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
PublishedJan 11, 2021, 5:00 am SGT
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