For at least 151 years, a hemlock and its close neighbor, a red oak, have grown up together on the Bates campus, close enough to overlap branches, while buildings popped up around them. Their survival ...

The morning after Election Day in 2020, FiveThirtyEight — the now-defunct political data site, where I worked at the time as a politics writer — published a chart on our liveblog. Within hours, it was ...

Tennessee is once again looking for a new head coach and wants to have a front office setup that puts that person in the best position to succeed. Amid a second head-coaching search in three years, ...

Every year, designers at Pew Research Center create hundreds of charts, maps and other data visualizations. We also help make a range of other digital products, from “scrollytelling” features to ...

For a design firm—or any business, really—success hinges on countless factors, from smart hiring to solid business management. Unfortunately there’s no easily replicable blueprint that guarantees ...

Have you ever spent hours crafting a timeline chart, only to abandon it because it was too clunky, rigid, or just plain uninspiring? You’re not alone. Many tools promise sleek visuals but fall short ...

Fear of the unknown is nothing new in business. But few unknowns are sparking more anxiety in the C-suite nowadays than this one: What impact will artificial intelligence (AI) have on our ...

Last month, my friend Amy, a midlevel marketing manager at a Fortune 500 company, had her entire junior analyst team “restructured.” The official reason? “Strategic realignment.” The real reason? AI ...

Every technological revolution brings with it management change. The rise of automation in the 1980s, for example, led to process reengineering (stripping out unnecessary steps to shorten timelines).

Agentic A.I. is no longer a support tool—it’s a decision-maker. As businesses integrate autonomous systems into their workflows, leadership must evolve to meet a future led by intelligent, ...

In their latest Work Trend Index Annual Report released this week, Microsoft researchers address some of the biggest unresolved questions prompted by businesses’ use of AI, including what it means for ...

This edition of Org Chart has news on a number of centers around campus, as well as a new endowed chair, a key financial position and more. Geophysicist Amanda Thomas has been named the inaugural ...