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…
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…
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,…
Business professors from 53 schools around the world identify 6 priorities for companies in the COVID-19 era The day before our university closed down, my MBA students debated the price that the company that discovers the COVID-19 vaccine should charge. None of us expected the university to shut down indefinitely the next day. Two months…
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…
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…
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 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…