Sleep - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta, Chicago O'Hare, and Dallas/Fort Worth airports—the airports with the highest number of planned passenger connections—40 percent of all domestic passengers' missed connections and 43 percent of all disruptions to one-stop passengers occurred.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a featureless landscape of... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

mentor to many entrepreneurs, describes how he responded to a manager who wanted to fire a salesperson. The customer loved the guy, but he wasn't working out internally. "Here's the desired result — to remove this person but with a positive result. First, View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

06 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

Year’s resolution. To turn a fitness aspiration into a habit, experts often recommend that people adopt rigid exercise routines and rituals, scheduling workouts or sleeping in running clothes, for example. But new research suggests that... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

08 Jan 2007
What Do You Think?

Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?

made in the subconscious after some amount of preparation. That is, study the problem, sleep on it, and decide without further analysis. It's the type of decision making described by Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Blink. According to this... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

that occurs when group members reflect seems integral to the creative process." Sometimes, literally sleeping on an idea —perhaps dreaming about it — is enough to provide the necessary perspective and get a group moving from... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

sleep and waking up routines. However, there were several factors Nanda had to grapple with before she could commit to final manufacturing design and development. Did she conduct sufficient market research to verify the desire for the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

Ultimately, some extra patience might be required. “You’ll have to set expectations and train people, especially managers, that they cannot expect answers instantaneously,” he says. “You’ll have to be patient and wait for the person who is View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

and consumers will embrace this new mode of payment. Either way, even if Apple stumbles with its mobile wallet, the company will likely survive the reputation hit. "Any failure Apple experiences here will be more than offset by the legions of fans that like their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

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