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 […]
A Decades-Long Journey of Marketing and Public Policy Research to Support the Greater Good
Now more than ever, writes Maura Scott, as business professors, we must generate and disseminate knowledge that can help inform and promote business, as well as society’s greater good.
In Defense of Qualitative Research – A PhD Researcher’s Experience
The authors argues that there is a bias against qualitative research, and yet not every type of data can be handled using quantitative, and human behavior cannot always be reduced to numbers.
Positive Management Practices as Cornerstone for a Sustainable Transformation
Martin Becker discusses how positive management practices can improve employee well-being and attract talent in highly competitive labor markets.
‘Critical Ignoring’ May Be Just as Vital as Critical Thinking
Critical ignoring is the ability to choose what to ignore and where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities.
Face Masks for COVID: An Obituary?
While the full story will probably have to await the attention of historians, writes Robert Dingwall, but anyone who criticized masking was labeled as a peddler of disinformation.
Business Schools are Ignoring Students’ Changing Aspirations. They Must Focus on Management as a Calling
Andrew Hoffman writes that business schools are slow to respond to students’ changing ideals, sticking to a heavy emphasis on 50-year-old notions of shareholder primacy and a “greed is good” mentality. He proposes a different business school model that emphasizes management as a calling.
Sociologist Alondra Nelson Leaving No. 2 Post at OSTP
Sociologist Alondra Nelson, deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the most senior adviser on social science in the Biden administration, will resign her post effective February 10.
How Might Societal Impact be Recognized within an FT Top 50 Journal?
From a journal editor’s perspective, top journals play a central role in recognizing societal impact of research.
