27 Sep 2022 Gather Ideas From Strangers, but Work Through Them With People Close to You Mannucci and Perry Smith analyze the role of personal networks in the creative process. Activating weak ties helps idea generation while triggering stronger ones makes fine tuning more effective, as Mannucci himself experienced directly when writing a novel
22 Sep 2022 A Map of Investment Attractiveness in Agribusiness Infrastructure A study by Stefano Gatti, chair of Antin Infrastructure Partners in Infrastructure Financing, charts longterm trends and compares various applications in an increasingly important sector
20 Sep 2022 Ukraine: Corporate Decisions in Wartime Andrea Colli prepared a reading, based on databases and scholarly literature, with three suggestions for companies whose operations are affected by conflicts
21 Sep 2022 Fighting Drug Resistance with Computational Methods Francesca Buffa's ERC funded project combines network analysis, agent based modeling and genomics to understand the workings of cancer, a multifactorial disease evolving in a complex environment
18 Sep 2022 The Link Between Unemployment and Crime Has Been Measured The probability of criminal prosecution increases by 23% for those losing a job and for their cohabiting sons, Britto, Pinotti, and Sampaio found in a paper on Econometrica
16 Sep 2022 Don't Steal Our Culture! Luxury brands are ever more frequently accused of cultural appropriation when they draw inspiration from nonWestern cultures. Gabriella Lojacono explains why and how to prevent the backlash.