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How Social Norms Affect Our Energy Usage

The Horizons Tracker

One of the more famous applications was the use of social comparisons on energy bills to encourage more prudent energy usage. The results highlight how influential such comparisons can be in changing consumer behavior. The most common kind of intervention to result in failure involved social comparisons. Changing behavior.

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Are managers equipped to solve the UK’s poor productivity?

Chartered Management Institute

The UK decline has been quite dramatic and leaves us reasonably uncompetitive in comparison to many advanced countries. In fact, productivity growth in the years since the 2008 financial crisis has been weaker than at any time since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Between 2008–2021 it increased by 0.9% per annum.

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The Research Excellence Framework Boosts Output But Not Efficiency

The Horizons Tracker

In 2008, the United Kingdom’s higher education sector replaced its method of measuring research quality from the Research Assessment Exercises (RAE) to the Research Excellence Framework (REF). The inaugural REF results, covering the period from 2009 to 2014, were released in 2014.

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The Leadership Walk

N2Growth Blog

In fact your talk matters little, in comparison to your walk. The most effective leaders have the best “talk”; a great vision, values, wonderful approaches and plans, and people see talk as more than just words – they see the walk. The reality is, they watch and pay much more attention to your feet, than your lips.

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How Twitter Hype Helps Startups

The Horizons Tracker

They analyzed around 400,000 English-language tweets about 37 different technologies and over 4,600 venture capital funding rounds from 2008 to 2017. “Twitter sentiment is a comparatively novel signal in venture capital financing, and it is at the same time only a weak signal in comparison to patents,” the authors say.

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How covid has impacted business in the Philippines

Strategy Driven

overall, which was considerably lower than during the aforementioned oil crash and the great recession of 2008 (against which Asia was relatively well-insulated). This will plunge growth levels well below the overall international average, creating an outlook that’s relatively bleak by both contemporary and historic comparisons.

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This Bud's Not for Me | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Because I had a few of the old cans in the refrigerator I conducted a side-by-side comparison through the eye of a marketer. The comparison raised a couple of brand trivia questions. This time, InBev, who bought AB in 2008 decided to throw new package graphics at the problem. This Bud’s Not for Me.

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