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A group of researchers were interested in how memory affects decision making.
In experiments, people had higher activity in memory retrieval when given open-ended questions compared to multiple-choice questions.
What’s your process for deciding what to eat for dinner? Is it different when you are offered a list to choose from? Experts are curious about how your memory could affect what you end up choosing. In a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team in California examines a model that tries to understand how memory could affect decision making.
Century Therapeutics, a leading cell therapy company developing induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cell therapies in immuno-oncology, today announced the appointment of Joe Jimenez as Board Chair and Cynthia Butitta as a new Independent Director.
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Students from top business schools gathered virtually last week to make a case for their marketing plans as part of the 2021 Clorox Case Competition.
As part of the competition, teams had to come up with plans for marketing Brita smart water filtering products to a target audience.
Out of the dozen teams that pitched marketing plans, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School came away with the first prize of $5,000. Members of Wharton’s team will also be interviewed for full-time positions at Clorox.
The University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business nabbed the $3,000 second-place prize while Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business took home $1,000 for third.
Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, and Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk both support cryptocurrencies. They also believe that Bitcoin can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and thus stop global warming. However, this view is doubted by many renewable energy experts.
In a white paper, Dorsey’s digital payment company Square and cryptocurrency investor Ark Invest jointly argued that Bitcoin miners are the “key” to increase global renewable energy production capacity. This will therefore enable solar and wind power generation to become more profitable.
Dorsey tweeted the paper titled “Bitcoin Incentives for the Development of Renewable Energy”. Well, another cryptocurrency enthusiast, Elon Musk gave a positive reaction. Ark Invest CEO, Cathie Wood, claims that the research “Debunk the myth that Bitcoin mining is destroying the environment.”
The average age of business school applicants has been trending downward for the past decade. With that, work experience expectations have shifted as well. But