Negotiating good deals for everyone
Harvard Kennedy School faculty teach negotiation skills—and its alumni put them to use.
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Research
How to Become a Critical Reader of Academic Research
After conferring with me, the Data Colada team went on to present their suspicions about the field experiment in a blog post and privately took their concerns about Gino's work to Harvard.
Granular feedback merits sophisticated aggregation
Human feedback is increasingly used across diverse applications like training AI models, developing recommender systems, and measuring public opinion– with granular feedback of ten being preferred ove
Scientific jargon can be ‘satisfying’ — but misleading
When scientists write for lay audiences, they face a familiar dilemma: should they use technical language that reflects precision and authority, or simpler language that maximizes clarity?
Risk-aversion with both high and low ambiguity: Elevated OCD symptom severity and intolerance of uncertainty are associated with less risk-taking in an OCD patient sub-sample
In clinical settings, patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) are generally risk-averse, especially in the context of uncertainty.
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Soroush Saghafian’s “Insight-Driven Problem Solving: Analytics Science to Improve the World”
We live in an era of unprecedented complexity—from climate change and global health crises to economic inequality. These “wicked problems” are deeply interconnected and resistant to simple solutions. Soroush Saghafian introduces a powerful framework for tackling complexity: analytics science.
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