Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Common Identity, Humanity, and COVID-19: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
“Wearing a mask is a sign of respect.” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, May 12th 2020 In the first chapter of this […]
Prejudice, Discrimination, and COVID-19: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
For the people that are now out of work because of the important and necessary containment policies, for instance the shutting down […]
Societal Polarization and COVID-19: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
This virus is dangerous. It exploits cracks between us. … Take as an example, ideology, or in one country it could be […]
Inequality and COVID-19: Excerpt from ‘Together Apart’
Social distancing is a privilege. It means you live in a house large enough to practice it. Hand washing is a privilege […]
Instilling a Higher Sense of Purpose in Business Education
For all the talk of social consciousness at academic conferences, personal wealth remains the imprimatur of business success par excellence. How then, we asked ourselves, can business schools expect their students to take ethics and social responsibility truly seriously?
Risks of Institutional Capture in University Decolonization, And How to Create Meaningful Change
As conversations around decolonization in universities are being afforded greater urgency, some key risks of this institutional capture or inertia to wider decolonization efforts are described by Rima Saini.
Beyond Illness: COVID-19 is Hurting Women In Academia
Women are facing additional constraints as a result of COVID-19. These range from the added burdens and responsibilities of working from home, through to the fact that fewer women scientists are being quoted as experts on COVID-19, all the way to far fewer women being part of the cohort producing new knowledge on the pandemic.
Business and Biodiversity: A View from the Inside
‘Do well by doing good’ is a mantra for management that sounds promising, but is it realistic? In today’s post, Clément Feger, an assistant professor at AgroParisTech and a researcher at Montpellier Recherche en Management at the Université de Montpellier, offers work he did that looks at one company’s efforts to foster sustainability in the environment and the balance sheet, and offers models for others to follow.
