JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING RESEARCHERS ENCOURAGED TO APPLY Decision Science News is a fan of the management group at UCSD and encourages readers to apply for this position. Job posting link Recruitment Period Open date: September 13th, 2018 Next review date: October 15th, 2018. Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. […]
VISIONARY, ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADER SOUGHT Application Link https://uacareers.com/postings/30073 Position Summary The University of Arizona (UA) seeks an energetic, visionary and entrepreneurial leader to be the next director of the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences (http://cals.arizona.edu/fcs/). Reporting to the director, the school has three academic degree programs: Family Studies and Human Development (FSHD), Personal and […]
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PERCEIVED TEMPERATURE Click to enlarge (We got a request for a Celsius version of this post and since we are a full service website we created one and put it here). So, we were wondering, what’s this heat index we hear about? We went to the Wikipedia article on it. It is an index that […]
OID PROFESSORSHIP: DEADLINE TO APPLY OCTOBER 21, 2018 The Operations, Information and Decisions Department at the Wharton School is home to faculty with a diverse set of interests in behavioral economics, decision-making, information technology, information-based strategy, operations management, and operations research. We are seeking applicants for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at any level: Assistant, […]
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WHAT SET OF COINS MINIMIZES THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF COINS NEEDED TO MAKE CHANGE? We draw your attention to the cleverly-titled article What This Country Needs is an 18 Cent Piece. It’s a piece of recreational mathematics that asks the question “what set of coins minimizes the average number of coins needed to make change”? […]
