In most languages there is a phrase like ‘the children of cobblers have the worst shoes’ or ‘doctors don’t take their own medicine‘. Whichever the phrase, the message is that experts are either too busy or too expert to take their own advice and practice what they preach. Can we say the same about business schools not…
Minutes – May 9,2019 RRBM WB meeting
Lutz On Relevance
Recently we were at a Humanistic Management conference where questions came up about why a truly important academic paper on an extremely important topic (in our view, anyway) had not gotten much uptake with scholars since its publication in 2015 and wide discussion at the 2016 AOM meeting. Further, it has received very little or…
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All-Academy PDW Improving Lives Call to Action-Jan8, 2018-Mary Uhl-Bien
As the Academic Director of the ITP programme (International Teachers Programme), I wish to share this initiative with the 40 business schools professors of the 2018 edition and make them reflect about it purposedly.
Management and Organizational Science (MOS), a pillar of the Social, Behavioral and Economic field, is a young science. Nonetheless, it has moved rapidly from an initial focus purely on practice (previous to the reports by the Ford and Carnegie Foundations in the 1960s) to its current state where it relies on more of a “pure…