Conducting Megastudies to Increase the Impact of Applied Behavioral Science

Conducting Megastudies to Increase the Impact of Applied Behavioral Science   Speaker: Katherine L. Milkman (The Wharton School)   Policy-makers are increasingly turning to behavioural science for insights about how to improve citizens’ decisions and outcomes. Typically, different scientists test different intervention ideas in different samples using different outcomes over different time intervals. The lack…

Bring Context Back In for Impact
Srilata Zaheer

When I was hired by the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management 29 years ago, my first assignment was to teach a course called “Business, Government, and the Macroeconomy.” It highlighted business’ and governments’ necessary interdependence and partnership, and the role of institutions in strengthening business and society.  It reinforced my belief that scholars…

RRAS2021 Agenda

Responsible Research Academic Summit 2021 Agenda Duration : 3 hours   Overall Summit Objective To share experiences and explore new ideas to deepen and broaden the transformation toward responsible research in business schools by deans, editors, association leaders, senior and young scholars.   Specific Summit Goals To share significant actions by deans, scholarly association leaders,…

RRAS Preparatory Readings

2021 RRAS Participant Pre-Summit Preparatory Readings   RRBM Position Paper. This document provides a common understanding of the terms “Responsible Research” and “societal impact” of research, as well as principles for designing research to enhance its credibility and usefulness. Brief summary of the Responsible Research Summit 2019 at the Rotterdam School of Management. Brief summary…

Resilience in Uncertain Times
Martina Linnenluecke

As many of you know, I research resilience, that is, the capacity of individuals, organisations and communities to recover from substantial adversity. In this essay, I offer some of my own experiences and observations, and hope that they can contribute to tackling major global challenges such as the Covid-19 health emergency and climate change. I…

Inaugural OB Division Award for Societal Impact

Inaugural OB Division Award for Societal Impact Sponsored by Pepperdine Graziadio Business School and the OB Division     The 2020 recipient from the OB Division Award for Societal Impact is Laura Morgan Roberts from the University of Virginia   Scholarly work with societal impact is both scientifically credible and useful to society; it produces societally…