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...felt a stint in grad school would help him move up into management. So last year he applied to a couple of U.S. schools and to the Indian School of Business (ISB), a six-year-old institution in the southern city of Hyderabad that has academic ties to Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the London Business School. He was thrilled when he got into ISB. "The more I looked, the more I realized it was on a par with U.S. schools," says Varma, who also liked the idea...
Life is supposed to get easier with new technology. Donald Norman wishes it were really so. Instead, he says, as devices evolve, people wind up befuddled and annoyed. The culprit: bad design, a longtime target of the Northwestern University professor. In his seminal 1990 book, The Design of Everyday Things, Norman explained why, for example, people so often switch on the wrong burner of an oven range--in a person's mind, a straight row of control knobs doesn't logically map onto a square stove...
...Crimson will face Pac-10 postseason perennial Stanford Friday and UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), the media’s pick to win the Big West title, Saturday. A Sunday day game against Louisiana’s Northwestern State University (NSU) will round out the tournament...
...wary of returning home from neighboring countries. Aid agencies say that the north-south civil war killed 2 million and uprooted another 4 million. Nevertheless, the dual prospects of long-term economic growth and of southern independence may change that - if the peace holds. Henry Jibi, a refugee in northwestern Uganda, says that he does not have plans to go back anytime soon. But Jibi adds, "I will be back in time to vote for independence...
...Based on our results, I think it’s really unfair if instructors are compared against one another where some have been impacted by these [factors],” said one of the study’s authors Benjamin D. Jee, now a post-doctoral fellow at Northwestern University. Students in the experiment were told that the chocolate was left over from an earlier event, so that they would not think it was in any way associated with their professor or teaching assistant. “People think that their judgments are sacred,” said the study?...