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In Salem, Hamilton Hall's lecture series celebrates 75 years Blake Maddux As is probably more widely known than ever before, Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804. The following year, architect Samuel McIntire completed work on the stately Federal-style structure on Chestnut Street that bears the first secretary of the treasury’s name. Hamilton Hall is amid its 75th year of hosting the Lecture Series on World Affairs. This year’s eight-person roster again includes a mix of returning and first-time speakers from some of the East Coast’s most illus...

Productivity is a quality typically ascribed to individuals, but that is a tiny minority of the measures an organisation can take to improve – a new paper argues that firms must focus on their systems.

By Joanna Goodman14 December 2020 Embracing uncertainty can build resilience into your business strategy. Firms should focus on connectivity, communication and cloud to ensure robust systems are in place Joanna Goodman In The Biggest Bluff, author and psychologist Maria Konnikova explores the nature of risk and uncertainty by learning to become a professional poker player. Why poker? ‘At its heart, poker is a game of incomplete information,’ she wrote in an article for The Observer, explaining that learning poker taught her to rise above the noise and embrace uncertainty and lack of contr...

As tens of thousands of hong kongers continue to protest this week, they were confronted with water cannons, tear gas, and for the first time the use of lethal force. the throngs are angry with their local government in hong kong and with the mainland chinese government. meanwhile, a new pugh research highlights how the rest of -- my question is -- which country views china the least favorably? stay tuned and we'll tell you the correct answer. my book of the week is daniel markovitz's book "the