Mathematics
mobi |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Michael J. Mauboussin

FIGURE 6-1 High-dimension contests increase the uncertainty of outcomes Correlation and Causality—Not! Stock-market soothsayers are always looking for reliable ways to anticipate the market’s direction. One favorite is the Super ...
( Category: Management & Leadership December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-06-19 | Author:Kaiser Fung [Fung, Kaiser]

Why Do Marketers Send You Mixed Messages? The mass retailer Target, with the famed red bull’s-eye logo, made the front page of New York Times Magazine in 2012 with an ...
( Category: Education & Reference December 2,2017 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Barbara Oakley

If you don’t make a point of repeating what you want to remember, your “metabolic vampires” can suck away the neural pattern related to that memory before it can strengthen ...
( Category: Memory Improvement December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Richard Foster & Sarah Kaplan [Foster, Richard]

CORPORATE EXAMPLES None of the public equity firms we have examined in the McKinsey Corporate Performance Database “found the secret” of creative destruction. None has outperformed the market, or demonstrated ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-08-27 | Author:Ian Ayres

Trading in Data The willingness of states to sell information on the race of their own citizens is just a small part of the commercialization of data. Digitalized data has ...
( Category: Databases & Big Data December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Joseph Ledoux

FIGURE 7–5 Brain Systems of Emotional Memory and Memory of Emotion. It is now common to think of the brain as containing a variety of different memory systems. Conscious, declarative ...
( Category: Mental Health December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-26 | Author:David McAdams

Changing the Game with Sellers’ Agents There are several ways to alter the standard agency contract in order to better align the financial incentives of homeowners and their agents. For ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Paul Glendinning

Maxima and minima The process of finding the maximum or minimum values of a function is called optimization. A maximum of a function ƒ(x) lies at point c if ƒ(c) ...
( Category: Mathematics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-07-13 | Author:Frank Wilczek

PART 4: SUMMING UP The Census of Forces and Entities We have four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak forces. All are described, theoretically, using local symmetry. ...
( Category: Physics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2001-07-29 | Author:Jeanie Daniel Duck [Duck, Jeanie Daniel]

THE CHIEF COMMUNICATOR BECOMES THE DE FACTO SHAPER OF CHANGE Sometimes, an unexpected individual emerges as a strong and influential communicator. In one company, it was the Chief Technology Officer ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-11-18 | Author:William H. Frey

Some of the trends spurring these shifts were suggested in the 1990s.20 One is the continued decline in segregation in southern areas that are magnets for both blacks and whites ...
( Category: Sociology December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-05-28 | Author:Cesar Brea

Figure 10.1 Managing Bias Checklist Some discussion questions: • Take the scorecard to the next three or four meetings you go to. What biases do you observe? • What’s behind ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales December 2,2017 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-01-27 | Author:The Economist

Figure 6.1 The mean ±1.96 standard deviation Confidence Confidence levels There is 95% confidence that: sample mean = population mean ± [1.96 × (population standard deviation ÷ sample size)] or, ...
( Category: Education & Reference December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:L. Jon Wertheim & Tobias Moskowitz [Wertheim, L. Jon]

So let’s take stock of all we know: When athletes are at home, they don’t seem to hit or pitch better in baseball, shoot free throws better in basketball, slap ...
( Category: Miscellaneous December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-07 | Author:Paul W. Farris & Neil T. Bendle & Phillip E. Pfeifer & David J. Reibstein [Farris, Paul W.]

Inventory Days: This metric also sheds light on the speed with which inventory moves through the sales process. To calculate it, marketers divide the 365 days of the year by ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales December 2,2017 )