Lucky stars? Culture, distance impact online review ratings

Five stars, one star, or something in between? Ratings you give a restaurant are likely affected by where you grew up, when you visited the eatery, and how far away that establishment is. What’s more, others look at how much emotion you express when evaluating the helpfulness of your critique.

Are employee devices an unlocked window to your data?

Think again if you believe that those complex, eight-characters-or-more, upper case, lower case and special character-filled passwords you require do a great job of protecting your corporate IT systems. In reality, those passwords are only as good as an employee’s willingness to use them and keep them private.

On-demand work: choosing inclusivity over exclusivity

The increase of on-demand work has created the necessity for websites tailored to connect freelancers with employment. Information Systems professor Kevin Hong’s research shows that the current model for advertising potential jobs can be better designed to increase employment.

Taming the Wild West of embedded analytics

Information Systems Professors Michael Goul, Raghu Santanam and Robert St. Louis are mapping ways to create standardization across firms, bringing order to predictive analytics — something that’s not even close to being in place right now in the analytics wilderness. Gould has been reporting their findings to the Advanced Practices Council of the Society for Information Management.

Business analytics: A better way to dig into supply chains

New research by a team of information systems and supply chain experts from the W. P. Carey School of Business shows that adding business analytics to the supply chain toolbox can make the process of evaluating supply chains easier, faster and more targeted.