The topic of diversity in the workforce is finally gaining national attention, thanks in large part to the growing number of research studies that reveal its benefits to businesses: gaining access to ...

Compliance and cybersecurity warn that the systems organizations rely on have become too complex to govern effectively.

This multicenter study identifies patient complexity in the hospital setting as frequent and helps to better understand what makes a patient complex. Objectives: To identify the characteristics of ...

We’ve all heard the KISS talk: Keep It Simple, Stupid. And it’s good advice if you’re preparing an argument or making a presentation. There are rafts of management tools—from spreadsheets to process ...

In the 1980s, an inkling emerged among some scientists that very disparate phenomena might on some deep level be related. The weather, protein folding, computers, evolution, the stock market, the ...

In today’s fast-moving consumer goods environment, consumers demand an increasing degree of differentiation. Serving this need comes at a cost. Think about your favorite beverage, for example. Many ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...