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 […]
Nominations Invited for Annual Downs Intellectual Freedom Award
The Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award acknowledges individuals or groups who have furthered the cause of intellectual freedom, particularly as it impacts libraries and information centers and the dissemination of ideas.
Unlocking Real-World Data Offers Real Benefits to Public Health
The COVID-19 pandemic has surfaced the potential and risks of linked real word datasets to accelerate and produce new improvements in public health. In this post, the authors outline the opportunities and challenges of using real world data as part of the ‘Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice’ project.
Organized Crime and Its Effect on New Businesses
The authors wanted to understand how new businesses in particular might be influenced by prevalent organized crime because they are among the smallest and most fragile organizations.
Coping with the Inclusiveness-Efficiency Paradox in Cross-Sector Partnerships
Tension between realizing inclusiveness on the one hand, and efficiency on the other was one that accompanied and puzzled the partnership throughout its time of existence, led the authors to make it the focus of their scholarly attention.
Does Gender Bias Influence What Gets Called ‘Soft Science’?
Across studies in research described here, participants were consistently more likely to describe a discipline as a “soft science” when they’d been led to believe that proportionally more women worked in the field.
Yizker Bikher: Eroding the Holocaust’s Goal of Erasure
Defying the Third Reich’s attempt to wipe Jewish culture off the map, ‘yizker bikher’ memorialize writers’ hometowns, commemorate murdered loved ones and pass on collective memory.
Research That Shows Impact from the Financial Times Responsible Business Education Awards
The Financial Times recently released a special report on their 2022 Responsible Business Education Awards. With the growing focus on social impact […]
How and When Success Becomes the Fate of Projects
A new paper in the the “Project Management Journal” suggests that knowledge-oriented leadership and valuing people should be promoted as primordial elements and strategic tools to build team cohesion for higher project performance and success.
