Topic: Technology
Embryo Selection, Polygenic Scoring and Unrealistic Expectations
False hope for instilling disease resistance and desirable traits?
Employees Work at Multiple Nursing Homes and Spread COVID-19
Smartphone GPS tracks staffers between facilities
Firms with Pricey Stocks Tend to Swing for the Fences in R&D
An innovative upside to overvalued stocks?
Fixing a Food Bank’s Pandemic Logistics Problem
Enormous growth and a redrawn supply chain required a new system
Food Delivery Apps: Driver Experience Turns Out to Be Crucial
A model improves on-time performance and yields more repeat business
Holiday Meals Shortened by Political Divide
Cell phone location data and local voting records measure discord
How Loyalty Programs Might Become More Profitable
Target customers with easy access to a competitor?
How Brands Can Anticipate Unauthorized Subcontracting of Apparel Manufacturing
A model predicts with 80% accuracy which orders get handed off
How Clinton and Trump Voters Behave in — and Spread — a Pandemic
Estimates are based on smartphone data and precinct-level 2016 vote results
How Established Firms Get Disrupted by Allies
Suppliers, distributers, product extenders go from helper to competitor
How Far Would You Go for an Ivy League Kid?
Study finds interest in screening embryos for education propensity, especially if everyone else is doing it
How Many Pairs of Sandals Would You Look at Online?
On your phone, about 20. How retailers can best harvest sales from those glances
How Medical Device Makers Reacted to Publication of a Once-Secret Database of Millions of Adverse Events
New product filings to FDA included stronger safety features and larger technological advances
How Nonprofits Can Better Engage Volunteers
When to allow unpaid workers to call dibs on recurring tasks — and when not to
How Tech’s Disruption Alters Investors’ Appetite for Risk
New technology’s upending of the old creates demand for alternative assets to offset risk
How to Speed Progress on U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Operations management research identifies synergies for more efficient action