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Tax collectors and insurance agencies trying to boost honest reporting could improve compliance simply by asking people to sign their forms at the beginning instead of at the end.

That’s because attesting to the truthfulness of the information before a form is filled out tends to activate people’s moral sense, making it harder for them to fudge their numbers after, says the University of Toronto's Nina Mazar.

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With the opening of its expansion, the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management begins a new era this month which will enable it to continue to expand its programs and faculty and increase its international profile.

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They've shared their expertise with senior executives from the Chinese financial services sector for years. Now, the University of Toronto's risk management experts are forging a new partnership with China's banks.

On July 3, U of T's  Rotman School of Management signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the China Banking Association (CBA) which provides the school with the opportunity to be a provider of risk management programs to the association's 152 banks and financial services companies.

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Advertisers spend enormous amounts of time and money attempting to tailor their advertising campaigns to the needs of different demographic groups. After all, the concerns of first-year college students are going to be different from those of retired professionals.

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Recently a London ad campaign  on an Oxford Street digital billboard  raised some eyebrows.  The billboard was equipped with facial-recognition technology that can tell with 90-per-cent certainty the gender of someone standing in front of it.  This “skill” allows it to display a full 40-second ad for Plan UK, an international charity that helps children in the developing world, to women only. Men aren’t able to see the ad and instead are directed to Plan’s website.