If you want something doing, do it yourself

If you find yourself facing

by Akshay R. Rao, Mark E. Bergen, and ^ 1 1^ f Scott Davis War I N THE BATTLE TO CAPTURE THE CUSTOMER, companies use a wide range of tactics to ward off competitors. Increasingly, price is the weapon of choice and frequently the skirmishing degenerates into a price war. Creating low-price appeal is often the goal, hut the result of one retaliatory price slashing after another is often a precipi...

"If You See Something, Say Something".

What to look for? ✔ Person(s) taking notes, drawings, photos, or videos of your business ✔ Person(s) attempting to gain information in person, by phone, or by email about your business operations (specifically about security measures and personnel) ✔ Person(s) conducting surveillance of self-service areas (i.e., salad bars, condiment areas, and open bulk containers) ✔ Person(s) attempting to ga...

If you don't want it, neither do I: Social influences on children's choices.

To what extent does knowing what others like influence children's valuation of objects? The current study examined the effect of having observed another person's choices on children's decisions about objects. Specifically, we asked whether children consider what the other person does not choose. In the first of three conditions, 4-year-olds watched as an experimenter looked inside two boxes and...

If You Own It, It Exists; If You Love It, That Says Something about You, Not It: Semantically Conditioned Case in Finnish

In Finnish, the object of a transitive verb is case marked in one of two ways: with the ACCUSATIVE or PARTITIVE case. Generally speaking, all Finnish transitive verbs are compatible with both accusative and partitive marked objects. Basically, which case is assigned can affect the interpretation assigned to a verb or its object. This suggests an instance of free variation in Finnish; that there...

The Hartford Consensus III: Implementation of Bleeding Control--If you see something do something.