Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Sam Miles
Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Sam Miles’ question of whether greater exposure to the cyberworld is creating a dystopia or a utopia.
Timeline of US Government and Social/Behavioral Science
Vannevar Bush’s post-war review of American science priorities set the tone for the federal funding of social and behavioral science ever since.
Advice for would-be textbook authors on approaching a publisher and writing a proposal
Last month I was invited to take part in a panel discussion for early-career faculty thinking about their first book project. The […]
Leaders Like Martin Luther King Jr. Are Important Role Models for Leadership Students
Few leaders can compare to Martin Luther King Jr.–to this day, he remains a role model for effective and ethical leadership. In his […]
New Podcast: Alex Bolinger and Kory Brown on Learning from Entrepreneurial Failure
In the latest podcast from Journal of Management Education, associate editor Jane Murray talks with authors Alex Bolinger and Kory Brown about the importance […]
Haven’t the Foggiest Which Weather Stories to Believe?
Thundersnow, willy-willys and the hottest/coldest seasons on record, there’s certainly no shortage of headlines about the weather. But many meteorological terms we […]
A Matter of Formality: How Dress Code Can Impact Customer Behavior
How an individual dresses can be quite revealing about their personality and how they would like to be perceived, but there is more to […]
