Society chooses its dead (Sartre, 1976)[1] A pandemic could be the context where the world sets aside differences and globally agree on how to best navigate our societies through the crisis. A pandemic does not distinguish between geographies, gender, ethnicity, or religion. Global solidarity, collaboration across old boarders, and a collective flexible humanitarian response…
Ā Center for Open Science offers The Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines. Established in 2015, COS holds the view that ātransparency, open sharing, and reproducibility are core values of scienceā, and that ājournals, funders and scholarly societies can increase reproducibility of research by adopting TOP guidelines.ā Published in 2015, TOP includes eight modular standards, each…
While many nations, companies, and individuals are still reeling from the negative effects of the financial crash that began in 2007 and then ground on through the years, the Covid-19 has hit hardly affecting many economies, and specially those related to the service industries. Services are often among the first and hardest hit by turmoil.…
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For many years, business schools have sought an appropriate balance of rigour and relevance in relation to their activities and the impact upon their stakeholders. Concern over impact has helped spawn a number of systems of research assessment aiming to incorporate and measure that elusive impact. Meanwhile Accreditation and Rankings bodies have tended to focus…
Our world is facing challenging tensions in all aspects of society: economic, political, technological, social, and environmental. All 195 member-states of the United Nations have pledged to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity within the next 15 years.1Ā http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ The National Academy of Engineering encourages the profession to meet 14 grand challenges in the…
Business schools could play a crucial role in helping governments prepare for the next pandemic by developing the next generation of the modelling and simulation community. Simulation modelling is an area of teaching and research found in many elite business schools. COVID-19 looks set to be the worst infectious disease pandemic of a generation in…
Zoom Guidelines We designed the RRVS2020 to be as interactive as possible in a zoom format which means that we will all be able to see each other and to have the floor. We will also use more advanced functionalities of zoom (such as breakout rooms). With great power comes great responsibilities, that…