Happiness is a complex emotion and mental state, one that has been pondered since the times of the Ancient Greeks. Many have ...

Abstract: Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control has been the workhorse of control technology for about a century. Yet to this day, designing and tuning PID controllers relies mostly on either ...

A current social media trend that extolls the virtues of "optimization" and "maximization" may actually contribute to ...

Probabilistic models, such as hidden Markov models or Bayesian networks, are commonly used to model biological data. Much of their popularity can be attributed to the existence of efficient and robust ...

The trend in parts of Dorchester toward investor-owned homes and short-term rentals is bad for the neighborhood, writes Cara ...

Abstract: This paper studies the newly emerging wireless powered communication network in which one hybrid access point (H-AP) with constant power supply coordinates the wireless energy/information ...

HBR revives “maximizing shareholder value”—what Jack Welch called "the dumbest idea in the world"—treating customers as ...

Have you ever considered why we want to be happy? Is it because happiness feels so good? Because science keeps revealing its wealth of benefits? Or perhaps because we are convinced that happiness is ...

Matt Lee is the founding partner of Atlas Growth Capital. He has 3+ years of experience as a consultant and startup advisor. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with ...

When a company focuses on maximizing shareholder value, it’s actively working to increase the wealth of its shareholders. This could mean boosting profits, increasing dividends or driving up the stock ...