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Ethics Resource Center: Latest National Business Ethics Supplemental Reports on Workplace Ethics September 2010: Reporting: Who’s Telling You What You Need to Know, Who Isn’t, and What You Can Do About It – “The study finds that when it comes to employees reporting misconduct on the job an important measure of an ethical workplace …
“In NEWSWEEKs first-ever Best Countries special issue, we set out to answer a question that is at once simple and incredibly complex if you were born today, which country would provide you the very best opportunity to live a healthy, safe, reasonably prosperous, and upwardly mobile life? Many organizations measure various aspects of national …
“Roadkill occurs when vehicles collide with or run over wildlife, such as birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. According to the Humane Society of the United States, over a million animals are killed every day on our roads and highways. We have created this site to provide a way for people like you to report roadkill …
5 Companies Thriving on the Rise of Shadow IT: “Shadow IT refers to “IT systems and IT solutions built and used inside organizations without organizational approval.” In the past few years, it’s gone from being considered a problem to being consider something to be embraced and learned from. Thanks to SaaS, entire companies have been …
News release: “A Stress Test for America, by G. Scott Thomas Sep 07 2010: “In an exclusive analysis of the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas, Detroit ranks as the most stressful place to live and work, while Salt Lake City lays claim to have the least stress-inducing attributes.” Portfolio.com’s survey: Stress Levels in America’s 50 …
“AIER [American Institute for Economic Research] has released its annual College Destinations Index (CDI), a quantitative ranking of the 75 best towns and cities to live in if youre a college student. The locations were chosen from an analysis of the 222 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) with student populations of 15,000 or more. The Institute …
The Impact of Competition on Technology Adoption: An Apples-to-PCs Analysis, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, July 2010, Number 462, by Adam Copeland and Adam Hale Shapiro “We study the effect of market structure on a personal computer manufacturers decision to adopt new technology. This industry is unusual because there exist two horizontally segmented retail …
News release: “The World Giving Index Report, the largest study ever carried out into charitable behaviour across the globe, which ranked the UK the eighth most charitable nation in the world, has found that happier people are more likely to give money to charity than those who are wealthy. The World Giving Index used a …
High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being, Daniel Kahneman1 and Angus Deaton, Center for Health and Well-being, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), August 4, 2010. “Recent research has begun to distinguish two aspects of subjective well-being. Emotional well-being refers to the emotional quality of …
“The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don’t have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings. Students, journalists, policy …
Cell phones and American adults – They make just as many calls, but text less often than teens – by Amanda Lenhart, Senior Research Specialist, 9/2/2010 “Texting by American adults has increased substantially over the past year, but still does not approach the magnitude of text messages exchanged by adolescents. Some 72% of adult cell …
Official Google Blog: “People tell us all the time that theyre getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you meanhere at Google we run on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a daymail from colleagues, from lists, about appointments and automated mail …
