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 […]
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.
Why Are Marketing Analytics Skills Vital, and How Can Business Schools Teach It?
Yes, there is a body of research and theory on analytics in marketing, and the subject is taught in some institutions. However, there is a lack of coherence
Future Business Leaders, Ethical Values, and National Economic Freedom: A View from Business Students in Eight Countries
Ethics, goes one line of reasoning, are great for those who can afford them. It’s a cynical view, to be sure, but what effect does the economic terrain affect ethical orientation?
Business Journals Say They Will Publish ‘Null’ Results
In a joint statement, 10 editors representing some of the academia’s most prestigious journals for management, organisational behavior and work psychology research, have vowed to publish research that fails to prove a hypotheses.
Freeing Biz School from the Blah-Blah-Blahs
The eternal conflict between the abstract and the applicable haunts the halls of many business schools. One way to help close the gap between research and practice is to re-examine how ‘impact’ is measured in the field.
Can Poetry Benefit Business Students?
[We’re pleased to welcome Carolyn M. Plump who collaborated with William Van Buskirk for Clare Morgan’s What Poetry Brings to Business.] While […]
Increasing Creativity in the Business Classroom
We’re all familiar with the old saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” But what if this tired phrase could be […]
Taking Business Education Into the Future
Of the Fortune 100 companies leading today’s economy, notes Fred Ledley, fully a third are purely focused on science and technology–health care, […]
