Monthly Archives: February 2018

Toward science-based professionalism
Georges Romme

The RRBM’s community call for action is an important one. The unintended, often negative, consequences of the academic system in and around business schools are well-known. In 2016, I published The Quest for Professionalism (awarded by RRBM as a good example of responsible research), which includes a comprehensive analysis of the stalemate in our discipline…

“Life is Too Short”
…to focus on research that has no potential for impact
Mary Jo Bitner

Recently, I had the distinct privilege of talking to and mentoring PhD students from all over the world at a PhD Consortium on service research held at the School of Management at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.  I talked to this group of nearly 100 business school PhD students and junior faculty about doing problem-based,…