The thing I hear often from Republicans is that, "Democrats don't play fair.  They cheat."  And the thing I hear often from Democrats is that, "Republicans don't play fair.  They cheat."

Who's right? 
(I have no idea.)

However, we can devise a simple research project to...

Troubled venture capitalists need to rethink how long they invest in startups; many should fund early and then sell to a secondary firm after a few years.

There's plenty of fretting in Silicon Valley and beyond over the venture capital industry, how broken it has become, and what needs to...

Is there a correlation between being a successful male politician and having more daughters?

The last three U.S. presidents have a total of five daughters and no sons (Clinton has one daughter and George W. Bush and Obama both have two daughters).  

Maybe politicians with daughters are...

And building programs to best leverage your most influential customers

Most companies internally assign a value to their customers that predicts how much money the customer will spend in the future, otherwise known as 'Total Customer Value' (TCV). Conventionally, the best way to determine a customer's TCV is to look...

In college, they teach you to use big words to make things sound important. If you are writing in college about the problems at GM, Ford, and Toyota, you'd write about the "automotive industry." Today, you'd make it simple and talk about "car companies."

In college you need to double...

Noise goes up but the quality stays the same.

Hiring is always hard. The hardest thing to do at a company is the recruiting and hiring. It was really hard when the economy was doing well. Paradoxically, for certain industries (especially those reliant on innovation such as those in the...

It is important to understand how homophily changes the way we think

Birds of a feather tend to shop together. That we know. They also tend to talk together and walk together; and who their friends are affects more than just what type of jeans they buy....

The Early Bird (Who is Your Friend) Gets the Worm

It's not too radical to claim that people are more like their friends than they are like other people that fit their demographic or psychographic makeup. Social psychology has shown that people tend to develop relationships with those that have...

When us humans come out of a suboptimal experience, we tend to over-correct in the opposite direction in our next experience. Repeated over-correcting results in pendulum-ing (which is often sub-optimal behavior).

For instance, let's say you dated a workaholic investment banker and the relationship goes sour (for reasons not qualifying...