Garden Writers Plan to Write About

How to write a great business plan.

Every seasoned investor knows that detailed financial projections for a new company are an act of imagination. Nevertheless, most business plans pour far too much ink on the numbers - and far too little on the information that really matters. Why? William Sahlman suggests that a great business plan is one that focuses on a series of questions. These questions relate to the four factors critical...

How to write a business plan.

Teaching How to Write about Multivariate Analysis:

Writing effectively about multivariate analysis involves a range of skills, including those that are typically taught in graduate courses or seminars about expository writing, multivariate regression, and research methods. This paper discusses how to integrate teaching of these skills into a graduate sociology program, including suggestions for courses and informal teaching settings into which ...

Reasoning about What to Plan

Agents plan in order to improve their performance. However, planning takes time and consumes resources that may in fact degrade an agents performance. Ideally, an agent should only plan when the expected improvement outweighs the expected cost and no resources should be expended on making this decision. To do this, an agent would have to be omniscient. The problem of how to approximate this ide...

Book Abstract: How to Write an Emergency Plan by David Alexander; Reproduced by Permission

In 2002, David Alexander wrote Principles of Emergency Planning and Management. Long a standard reference work in that book he described the processes of preparing for and responding to disasters, crises, and civil contingencies. He based the work on principles because he wanted to dissociate it from any particular system of emergency management. Then, as now, many books in this subject are tie...