The Wing Institute
In 2004, Jack States, Randy Keyworth, and Ronnie Detrich founded the Wing Institute, named in memory of Ernie Wing, an educator and child advocate who championed evidence-based education policies and practices in public and private schools.
What Scientists Can Learn from the Science of Behavior
Given such scientists’ high performance as individuals, managing a scientific team poses a special challenge: ironically enough, the very attributes that motivate what appears to be “discretionary effort” at the individual level can hinder sustainable progress at the team level.
Rapid Change Charges Up Pharma Sales Franchise During Phaseout
Here’s the scenario. You work as a manager or sales representative for one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Your group or franchise specializes in selling and marketing drugs that focus on a particular medical condition...
The Pocket-Money Checklist
Every parent knows that it may be difficult to teach an old dog new tricks, but nearly impossible to teach a young child good habits. We can nag and nag, irritating our children and frustrating ourselves, but the outcome seldom changes our children's behavior...
ADI Visit Launches Promising Asian Alliances
In recent months, ADI has entered into two new alliance agreements in Asia: the first with R+ China, a start-up company based in Shanghai, China, and the second with the Behavioral Excellence and Development Strategy (BEADS) Institute, an established consulting organization based in Singapore...
Heroes for Humanity: Using the Science of Behavior Analysis to Change the Way the World Works
In the 1990s approximately 25,000 people suffered loss of life or limb as a result of accidental detonation of land mines left behind from past wars and regional conflicts...
Achieving the Promise of Acquisition Success: Designing the Human Factor
In January 2000, a leading Internet company, AOL, and the media giant Time Warner announced a merger/acquisition, heralding it as “a coming of age for the Internet and the triumph of the New Economy...”
How to Make Wiser Decisions Using the Science of Behavior Analysis
When companies take a nosedive, often due to a series of executive decisions that in retrospect seem obviously detrimental, conversations around the office often include the question, “What were they thinking?”...
NUTS! When Leadership Abandons Ethics in the Name of Profit
You can't pick up a newspaper or turn on the news these days without hearing about the salmonella problem originating in the Peanut Corporation of America’s plant in Georgia...
President and CEO Honored with Prestigious Award
ADI President and Chief Executive Officer, Darnell Lattal, has earned West Virginia University’s prestigious Eberly College Alumni Award for important contributions she has made in her community and within her profession...
Rethinking the Poverty/Terrorist Link
Researchers and authors Alan B. Krueger and Jitka Maleckova have released a new study questioning whether poverty and lack of education are root...
Some Sports May Lead to Unhealthy Behavior in Girls
Most people concede that sports are a good thing for both genders, but recent studies show that sports with an emphasis on body shape - such as...
R-Ratings Affect Habits
A recent study by Dartmouth Medical School researchers has found that kids who are not allowed to watch R-rated movies are at least three times less...
Is Generation Y Losing Faith in Institutions?
This year, most individuals have been scrambling to hold onto success and security while many of society's great institutions have been faltering in...
Consequence Change for CEO Crime
82 percent of corporate executives admit to cheating at golf and 72 percent believe that golf and business behavior parallel. -Starwood Hotels...
Apologize the Right Way
"With corporate credibility sinking to new lows, managers in the spotlight are stonewalling, denying, and taking the Fifth. Hardly any of them has...
