History Professor Allan Lichtman of American University explains what his model, The Keys to the White House, forecasts for 2012 and why the surprisingly uphill battle will be for Republican presidential hopefuls.

How can online merchants learn more about their potential customers by mining the data surrounding social media – without violating strict privacy rules?

Shouldn't major business decisions about acquiring a company be made strictly on the merits? University of British Columbia Sauder School researchers Maurice Levi, Kai, Li, and Feng Zhang made surprising discoveries about the way that male CEOs testosterone levels affects their business judgment.

Turbulence on Wall Street Financial engineering came under a microscope in August 2007, when so-called "quant funds" suffered hundreds of millions of dollars of losses.

Hear Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, share his special views on how analytics in the military and business sector intersect.

In a study, Terror Queues, Yale's Edward H. Kaplan explains how techniques now being used to study grocery store queues can also be used to assess the strength of terror plotters.

Hear Dr. E. Andrew Boyd explain the history of pricing and reservations in the airlines - including the unexpected roll of gumballs. What you'll learn will surprise you.

Hear Wharton's Mary J. Benner, author of the study Securities Analysts and Incumbent Response to Radical Technological Change, published by Organization Science, explain her surprising findings.

Hear David Alderson explain what his colleagues are pioneering - and why the controversy about the best way to protect the infrastructure is more contentious than ever.

Hear operations researcher Eva K. Lee, Director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare at Georgia Tech explain how her O.R. innovations have helped create treatment plans that do a better job healing patients, avoiding radiation damage to healthy tissue, and saving a half billion dollars in related healthcare costs.