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How much “customer interaction uncertainty” does your business deal with? The answer should guide your thinking about AI.
Integrating a rational tool into an irrational environment does not always produce the expected results.
Left turns are dangerous and slow down traffic. One solution? Get rid of them. New research shows that limiting left turns at busy intersections would improve safety and reduce frustrating backups.
Disasters highlight the cost of society’s love of efficiency. Nature, in contrast, favors resilience. Being more like nature offers benefits for society, especially in the face of the climate crisis.
Netflix has added millions more subscribers as people practice social isolation to control the coronavirus. But service’s diverse menu of content is not an efficient business model.
In many cities, convention holds that there’s a lane for walking and a lane for standing on the escalator. But human systems engineers suggest this isn’t the most efficient option for the system.
Low-income, less-educated parents with non-standard work schedules rely most on home child-care providers whose rules would be relaxed under proposed legislation.
Technology has made many aspects of daily life much easier. So why do we still feel so overwhelmed?
Could we really reduce the number of vehicles on our roads from 37m to 9m?
There’s an international push towards low-emissions housing. New research investigates what it’s like to actually live in low-energy houses.
Whether it’s our inboxes and calendars or how companies are structured, we’re obsessed with making things orderly. But research suggests it’s time to break free.
The natural world favours resilience over efficiency – so why don’t humans?
Here’s how to make a happy workplace during year-end assessments.
Good corporate governance is good for efficiency and profit in banks. But having independent board members and the number of board meetings don’t play a role, research shows.
Schools are focusing on the wrong objective when it comes to using technology in their classrooms. They should focus just as much on how they teach.
The Panama papers show how hard it is to keep on top of tax collection, but outsourcing to the private sector would bring problems of its own.
While the Paris climate talks focus on technical fixes, no one talks about how we’re much more afraid of roughing it than ever before.
The Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Andrew Leigh, has said the the Government’s latest tax discussion paper says the GST is as inefficient as income tax, adding he thinks it’s less equitable. Is that right?
Every now and again in public policy debates a consensus emerges on some particular point among policymakers, stakeholders and commentators. These moments are distressingly rare. It is even more distressing…
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Chancellor's Fellow in Sustainable Design, University of Strathclyde
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Health Service Research, University of Birmingham
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Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Lecturer, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor, School of Business, University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Economics, Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer and Co-Director, Electric Vehicle Centre of Excellence (EVCE), Cardiff University
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Professor of Economics, University of Exeter
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Education & Technology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Assistant Professor in Accounting, University of Nottingham
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Research Director, University of Huddersfield
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Associate professor, Curtin University
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Reader in Organisational Behaviour, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
