“Email can throw a leader off course if used as anything more than a quick messaging system,” he writes. “After all, the leader has to keep the big picture in mind, and therefore must avoid being redirected constantly by others’ agendas.”
The program enters the season with high expectations, coming off consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, a school-record 26 wins and returning virtually its entire roster. And every game on the schedule will be televised.
The bottom line, according to USC’s Aleksandra Korolova, a former Google research scientist: Apple oversells its differential privacy protections.
Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC found the drug helped patients with receding chins by reducing tension and altering the chin’s overall shape.
USC Annenberg’s Diane Winston argues that the show gives fans a chance to contemplate and debate fundamental concerns about human life — issues that are central to all world religions.
Emilio Ferrara of USC’s Information Sciences Institute estimates that up to 15 percent of Twitter profiles — a whopping 50 million — are bots. And most are creatures of politics.
Several USC facilities, as well as the Coliseum, will have high-profile roles when the city hosts its third Olympiad.
USC’s Yves Bergquist crunched the numbers for all 150 movies released in 2017 and found no correlation — positive or negative — between the website’s scores and box office returns. The results hold all the way back to 2000.
Since Texas temporarily allowed out-of-state lawyers to offer pro bono services to victims of Harvey, USC’s Gillian Hadfield sees no reason not to expand this so more people have access to affordable legal services.
USC President C. L. Max Nikias notes that the DACA reversal puts the nation in the odd position of walking away from the huge economic benefits of having invested in the education of thousands of university graduates.
Case study: Ming Hsieh, who gave $35 million in 2006 to the USC electrical engineering department and $50 million in 2010 to establish a cancer-focused nanomedicine institute.
“America’s seniors will need to see their own journeys, struggles and dreams in the rising generation of color and join the struggle for educational equity,” write USC’s Manuel Pastor and a PolicyLink colleague.
USC’s David Agus and Dana Goldman comment on why innovative drugs should not be subject to traditional pricing plans.
“When these supposedly neutral organizations weigh in on issues that involve Google, you should take their advocacy with a grain of salt,” writes USC Annenberg’s Jonathan Taplin in an opinion piece.
In a video, Alexander McDowell of the USC School of Cinematic Arts’ World Building Institute talks about his research to build narrative worlds based on the knowledge we have about cities.
Two USC economists and a colleague looked into when work/life balance issues cause people age 51 to 79 to stop, or cut back on, working.
“An artist cannot hide from her or his political beliefs; they will be in the work,” say the USC distinguished professor of English. “But to presume that I am smart enough to preach a position runs counter to my artistic sense.”
A study by USC researchers found reduced green cover in 20 L.A.-area communities from 2000 to 2009. Co-author Travis Longcore says urban trees flourished here through much of the 20th century but have declined in the 21st.
On Catalina Island, USC’s Diane Kim and her colleagues are working on what they hope will become an energy source of the future — macroalgae, otherwise known as kelp. It’s one of the fastest-growing plants on Earth, and farming it requires no fertilizer, fresh water, pesticides or arable land.
“The road to the Charlottesville attack was not traveled in a night, nor even a decade,” writes USC’s Erroll G. Southers. “Since 9/11, the uptick in terrorism has not come from foreign threats. Instead it is owed to homegrown terrorists.”
Research by USC’s Davide Proserpio suggests that companies perceived to be responsive to and sensitive toward customers’ opinions are most likely to experience an improvement in future comments.
USC’s Stephanie Tully and Dartmouth’s Eesha Sharma note that borrowing decisions fall into two categories: “how to pay” and “whether to buy.”
A survey by USC’s Christian R. Grose and Jordan Carr Peterson Public found that officials are more likely to support removing Confederate images when their presence is presented as bad for local business.
The magazine’s annual ranking cites the school’s top-notch faculty and facilities, along with a location that puts it right in Hollywood’s backyard.