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...shows that choice can hinder decision making. In one experiment, college students were given the option of studying or attending a lecture by an author they admired. Only 21% opted to study. Yet when a third option--watching a movie--was thrown in, 40% chose studying. The need to pick between two fun outings made students twice as likely to have...
...baseball-and-business axiom that nice guys and girls finish last. Says Thaler: "We couldn't find one marketing book anywhere--and we combed through all of them--that had one sentence about the fact, 'Oh, and by the way, you should give a client a more comfortable seat, pick up their bags at the airport, compliment them on their ties.'" That's why the authors dismiss old think about office demeanor: "'Mean' to us is so last millennium...
...Choose Your Own Adventure book. Garbage, I knew, but oddly captivating. What autonomy! I think I’ve been too dictatorial lately. Around the Ivies’ readers deserve more independence, and, let’s face it, I haven’t been successful enough with my picks to enforce linear narration.Best of luck, choose wisely, and you might go 4-0. But beware the fire-breathing troll! NO. 23 HARVARD (5-1, 2-1 Ivy) AT DARTMOUTH (1-5, 1-2)Harvard, fresh off a heart-breaking defeat in Princeton on Saturday, hasn’t lost...
...does offend me,” said Carla Fortmann, who works at the historic Buckman Tavern in Lexington—the same tavern where the original minutemen were stationed on the eve of the American Revolution. “I understand how they might pick [the name], but vigilante might seem more appropriate. Or self-appointed posse. Or even bounty hunters...
...MBTA thinks is in a position to help solve its financial problems by paying increased fares. Here’s a hint: It’s not students. We have even less money than they do, and it is unfair to expect us and other Boston-area residents to pick up the tab for poorly conceived expansion projects that were often opposed in the first place...