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 […]
Job Satisfaction: Closer Than You Think In Family Business
When it comes to job satisfaction, do “family” and “business” seem incompatible to you? A new study in Family Business Review (FBR) […]
Security Breach: How Managers Should Respond
After hackers stole millions of LinkedIn passwords this month, resulting in a $5 million class-action lawsuit, the social networking site’s response to […]
Too Personal For Email?
There are some things you never want to see in your inbox—a reprimand from your boss, for one—while at other times, email […]
The Diversity Challenge: Part 5 of 5
Editor’s note: This post concludes our first diversity series. We’ll be presenting more theme-oriented collections in the coming weeks. Do you have […]
When the Boys Fit in Better Than the Girls
Racially integrated schools offer a number of benefits for students: they are able to expand their cultural outlooks, gain new friends, learn about those who are different, and get better educations at schools with better resources than they would otherwise attend. However, students may struggle with making friends, interacting across racial lines, developing an ethnic identity and with academic achievement
The Diversity Challenge: Part 4 of 5
Editor’s note: Today we’re continuing our series on diversity, targeting specific questions to invite discussion and exploration of related topics. If you […]
Nobel Prize Winner Elinor Ostrom Leaves Legacy to Celebrate at a Time of Attacks on Value of Her Discipline
Last week we heard the sad news that Professor Elinor Ostrom has died. Her profound contributions to scholarship have been told often since she became the first woman and the first political scientist ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Economics.
The Diversity Challenge: Part 3 of 5
Editor’s note: Today we’re continuing our series on diversity, targeting specific questions to invite discussion and exploration of related topics. If you […]
