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05 Jul

Posted at 09:26h in Uncategorized

From today's Washington Post Value Added: Quantifying the intangible amounts to profits by Thomas Heath. "Saaty realized right then that there must be a business in answering such questions for companies if a firm with the smarts and expertise of Intel sometimes lacked enough information to make the most informed decisions." This article is a great conversation starter about understanding how tools such as Conjoint Analysis can help managers make better informed decisions. It isn't about replacing business judgement, but about enhancing it....

19 Feb

Posted at 17:16h in Uncategorized

I found this recent article in the NYTimes enlightening in a "back to the future" way. It discusses several studies on how retrieval testing seems to be a better approach for cementing knowledge in students. "The struggle helps you learn, but it makes you feel like you’re not learning,” said Nate Kornell, a psychologist at Williams College. “You feel like: ‘I don’t know it that well. This is hard and I’m having trouble coming up with this information.’ By contrast, he said, when rereading texts and possibly even drawing diagrams, “you say: ‘Oh, this is easier. I read this already.’...