And, in what I hope is my last post on foreign policy realism for the day, I think there’s a general problem with the oft-elided distinction between descriptive and prescriptive realism. Descriptive ...

Understanding your customers when there’s only a handful isn’t too difficult. But as your company grows and the number of customers expands rapidly, it can be overwhelming to keep up with the change.

Henry Mintzberg, a world-renowned professor of management studies at McGill University, once said, "Management is, above all, a practice where art, science and craft meet." What Mintzberg did not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Exploring Cloud, AI, Big Data and all things Digital Transformation. Analytics is probably the most important tool a company has ...

Diekmann, K. A., A. E. Tenbrunsel, P. P. Shah, H. A. Schroth, and M. H. Bazerman. "The Descriptive and Prescriptive Use of Previous Purchase Price in Negotiation ...

Today, organisations across sectors deal with vast quantities of data, ranging from customers’ personal details, browsing habits, and purchasing histories. By leveraging analytics, businesses are able ...

While predictive analytics have been an ed tech buzzword in recent years, they are but a midpoint in the evolution of data analytics in higher education. What began as descriptive analytics, the ...

I was watching a short video by Babson College Prof. Thomas Davenport on the Harvard Business Review website recently and found it to be a good, simplified explanation of analytics. (Stop! Don't swipe ...