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Prioritize Concurrent Urgent Research Requests

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You're supporting a fast-moving research function, and several urgent requests arrive at the same time from different internal stakeholders. Each request is framed as high priority, but your time and bandwidth are limited, so you need to decide what to handle first and how to communicate that clearly.

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How do you prioritize multiple urgent research requests when they come in at the same time?