Schools of Thought

Thinking Like a Business: Four Strategies to Translate Research into Business Value

Author Josh LaMar offers a practical framework for translating research insights into measurable business outcomes. Using Jay Abraham’s Three Ways to Grow a Business and the author’s own Three Lenses of Strategy, it outlines four actionable strategies that connect research to revenue growth, pricing power, customer retention, and cost reduction. Whether you work in user experience, market research, or product strategy, you’ll learn how to position your findings in terms business leaders understand—making your work more impactful and your role more indispensable. […]

Luminaries

From French Literature to Future Technologies: Maria Bezaitis’s Pursuit of Creativity and Diversity in Thinking as a Humanities-Trained Research Leader

Maria Bezaitis, a humanities-trained UX researcher and former Intel Fellow, shares her unconventional path from academia to pioneering ethnographic research in business and technology. With a PhD in French literature, she transformed her expertise in reading and interpretation into a powerful research approach, influencing corporate innovation at E-Lab, Sapient, and Intel. […]