Word: reductionism
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People respond to incentives, the economists say, and it’s starting to look like they’re right. According to a study released last year by Wojciech Kopczuk and Joel Slemrod, two researchers at the University of Michigan, Americans obey the injunctions of their pocketbooks even when...
Service-industry workers may be the public faces of their companies, but they often complain that they don't get heard by their bosses. So at Isle of Capri Casinos, which operates 14 gaming establishments in Mississippi, Nevada and four other states, employees are being encouraged to e-mail their...
Cuban scoffs at the idea that he has done anything innovative. "I've brought a sales focus," he says, shrugging. Cuban has even done radio promotions for a weight-reduction system and a local tanning parlor to help close a deal for ads on broadcasts of Mavericks games. Cuban threatens...
30% Reduction in passenger complaints about U.S. airline service since 9/11, attributed to better baggage handling and fewer flight delays
Joyce K. McIntyre ’02 has criticized the Clothesline Project, a project of Take Back the Night (TBTN), because it did “not adequately empower potential victims of sexual assault to seek justice for themselves, nor did it effectively advocate for the reduction of sexual assault...