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It’s called “decision paralysis” and it occurs when you’re overwhelmed by the freedom to choose among too many options. But there’s a twist to this once you retire that you may not have thought about.

Dr. Ravi Sen is an Associate Professor at Mays Business School, Texas A&M. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include cybersecurity, open source software, and economics of electronic commerce. He has published in the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Production and Operations Management (POM), Decision Support Systems (DSS), Decision Sciences, International Journal of Electronic Commerce (IJEC), Communication...

May 2, 2021 CHICAGO – Economic reporting about China focuses far too much on total GDP and not enough on per capita GDP, which is the more revealing indicator. And this skewed coverage has important implications, because the two indicators paint significantly different pictures of China’s current economic and political situation. They also focus our attention on different issues. A quick search through all English-language news outlets in the ProQuest database for the ten-year peri...

Government Executive email GovExec Daily: Why the Deep State Doesnt Exist in the Civil Service Guo Xu and Edoardo Teso join the podcast to discuss their paper "Ideology and Performance in Public Organization." The federal workforce is made up of more than two million individuals, so it is hardly a monolith of ideology, values or common sentiment. Each one swears an oath to the Constitution, of course, but they are human beings with their own viewpoints, including on policy and p...

Share Six members of the University of Pennsylvania faculty have been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. They are Cristina Bicchieri and Michael Hanchard of the School of Arts & Sciences, Vijay Kumar, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Stanley Plotkin and Kenneth Zaret of the Perelman School of Medicine, and Sarah Tishkoff, a Penn Integrates Knowledge professor with appointments in Penn Medicine and Penn Arts & Sciences. They join more than 250 new members h...

What is the most significant threat to workplace cyber security breaches? It may just be the complacency of the person in the cubicle next to you. Five years after first presenting his concept at the 2016 Dewald Roode Workshop on Behavioral Information Security, Dr. Tom Stafford has published his grounded theory development of a mid-range Theory of Cybersecurity Complacency. His article, “Platform-Dependent Computer Security Complacency: The Unrecognized Insider Threat” was published in IE...

2021/04/15 10:00 HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach - 15 April 2021 - A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School and Shenzhen Luohu District Peoples Government, on 14 April 2021, for the establishment of CUHK Business Schools satellite campus at Luohu, Shenzhen. Prof. Lin Zhou, Dean of CUHK Business School and Mr. Zhiyong Liu, Deputy Secretary of District Commission and District Mayor of Shenzhen Luohu District Peopl...

April 15, 2021 Share This: Cal State Fullerton celebrated its 2021 University Awards Program with a virtual ceremony featuring fun videos, jeopardy quizzes, scratch-off ticket prizes and sincere appreciation. Hosted by President Fram Virjee and David Forgues, vice president for human resources, diversity and inclusion, faculty and staff members were thanked for their service to Cal State Fullerton. “While only a handful of faculty and staff will be recognized with awards today, all of ...

April 08, 2021 HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach  - 8 April 2021 - Whenever there is great uncertainty in the market, it is not uncommon for firms to seek out a business partner to leverage on each others strengths to develop new business opportunities as well as to help shoulder risks. A case in point is the famous AOL Time Warner alliance, which was billed as the ultimate combination of an online service provider with a media conglomerate, amidst the massive upheaval that occurred just as gl...