Lahore University of Management Sciences

Forecasting a President-Centered Midterm: Leader-Centered Personalization in the 2026 US House Elections

Forecasting models of US midterm elections rely on indicators such as presidential approval, economic conditions, incumbency, district partisanship, and the generic congressional ballot.This paper asks whether these indicators fully capture presidential influence when congression...

An interpretable Day-1 machine-learning model for COVID-19 mortality and severity prognosis: development in a Pakistani hospital cohort and external evaluation in Chinese and Italian populations

Early risk stratification of COVID-19 patients at admission informs triage and resource allocation, particularly in low- and middle-income settings where intensive-care capacity is constrained. Most published models are not interpretable, rarely externally validated, and develope...

Pashtun Women and Folk Literature: Intersections of Labor, Affect, and Oppression

Abstract This paper argues that Pashto folk literature, especially tapa (pl. tapey ) —an anonymous, predominantly oral couplet, often attributed to women—provides Pashtun women, an invaluable literary space for resistance against oppressive apparatuses prevalent in the rural comm...

Numbers Don’t Lie … Or Do They? Vitol’s Investment Dilemma in the Hascol Case

The title, ‘Numbers Don’t Lie … Or Do They?’, signalled the case’s central tension and invited students to ask not only what Hascol’s financial statements appeared to show, but also how far those numbers could be trusted and whether quantitative analysis alone was sufficient to g...

Mantra of sustainability, navigating organizational ambidexterity: cultivating intellectual capital to drive competitive advantage and innovation capabilities

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital (IC), organizational ambidexterity (OA) and emergent strategies (ES) within the hospitality industry in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on the resource-based view theory...

A clinical analysis of the presentation of depression in Pakistan

Background Major depressive disorder is a leading cause of disability worldwide, yet its clinical presentation varies substantially across cultural contexts. In many low- and middle-income settings, including Pakistan, depression is frequently expressed through somatic rather tha...