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14 Jan 2025
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How to Adapt to Extreme Heat

14 Aug 2017
News

Extremely disappointed Trump didn't agree with Frazier

December 2010
Article

Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009

By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt

How can people and organisations best respond to emergency events that are significantly beyond the boundaries of what they had generally anticipated, expected, prepared for-or even imagined? What forms of organisations are likely to be best able to cope with such... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Management Practices and Processes; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Boundaries; United States

2012
Book

Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours

By: Robert C. Pozen

In "Extreme Productivity," Pozen reveals the secrets to workplace productivity and high performance. His book is for anyone feeling overwhelmed by an existing workload—facing myriad competing demands and multiple time-sensitive projects. Offering antidotes to a... View Details

Keywords: Productivity; Performance Productivity; Performance Capacity

2018
Working Paper

Bayesian Ensembles of Binary-Event Forecasts: When Is It Appropriate to Extremize or Anti-Extremize?

By: Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr., Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Victor Richmond R. Jose and Robert L. Winkler

Many organizations face critical decisions that rely on forecasts of binary events. In these situations, organizations often gather forecasts from multiple experts or models and average those forecasts to produce a single aggregate forecast. Because the average... View Details

Keywords: Forecast Aggregation; Linear Opinion Pool; Generalized Additive Model; Generalized Linear Model; Stacking.; Forecasting and Prediction

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19 Jan 2021
News

Online Extremism and Political Advertising: A Visual Interview With Laura Jakli

Article

Refined Configuration Results for Extremal Type II Lattices of Ranks 40 and 80

By: Noam D. Elkies and Scott Duke Kominers

We show that, if L is an extremal Type II lattice of rank 40 or 80, then L is generated by its vectors of norm min(L)+2. This sharpens earlier results of Ozeki, and the second author and Abel, which showed that such lattices L are generated by their vectors of norms... View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods

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February 2023
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Homophily and Acrophily as Drivers of Political Segregation

By: Amit Goldenberg, Joseph M. Abruzzo, Zi Huang, Jonas Schone, David Bailey, Robb Willer, Eran Halperin and James J. Gross

Political segregation is an important social problem, increasing polarization and impeding effective governance. Previous work has viewed the central driver of segregation to be political homophily, the tendency to associate with others who have similar views. Here we... View Details

Keywords: Political Affiliation; Extremism; Values and Beliefs; Identity; Groups and Teams; Emotions; Civil Society or Community

1981
Article

Extreme Points and Basic Feasible Solutions in Continuous Time Linear Programming

By: André Perold

23 Mar 2022
News

Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s Leadership Take Remote Work to the Extreme

March 2010
Article

Extreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States

By: Paul A. Gompers, Joy Ishii and Andrew Metrick

We construct a comprehensive list of dual-class firms in the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting... View Details

Keywords: Voting; Cash Flow; Stocks; Rights; Ownership Stake; Value; United States

14 Dec 2021
News

What Options do Building Owners Have to Mitigate Extreme Weather Events?

March 2016
Article

The Role of Investor Gut Feel in Managing Complexity and Extreme Risk

By: Laura Huang

Securing financial resources from investors is a key challenge for many early stage entrepreneurial ventures. Given the inherent uncertainty surrounding a decision to invest in these ventures, prior research has found that experienced investors rely heavily on their... View Details

Keywords: Angel Investors; Gut Feel; Intuition; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Risk and Uncertainty; Complexity; Decision Making

2008
Book

Extreme Toyota: Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer

By: Emi Osono, Norihiko Shimizu and Hirotaka Takeuchi

Keywords: Production; Success; Auto Industry

25 Oct 2012
News

Bob Pozen, Master Of Extreme Productivity, Shares His 3 Most Effective Career Tips

November 2018 (Revised June 2019)
Case

The Rise of Populism and Italy's Electoral 'Tsunami'

By: Rawi Abdelal, Dante Roscini and Elena Corsi

Italy’s March 2018 elections led to a populist government that included the right-wing League and the anti-establishment 5 Star Movement. To respect their electoral promises, the two parties came up with a budget plan that provided for a public deficit at 2.4%, a... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Economies; Unemployment; Extremism; Political Elections; Immigration; Poverty; Social Issues; Government and Politics; Financial Condition; Financial Markets; Italy

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Other Unpublished Work

Negotiating in the Shadow of Terrorism: How Violent Extremism Makes Peace Negotiations Possible and Improbable

By: Deepak Malhotra

Keywords: Negotiation