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Social Ties in Academia: A Friend is a Treasure
My takeaway from the article: Encourage my two advisers to become editors of prestigious journals! This extract from the conclusion says a lot: The social effect is particularly relevant for former PhD students and university colleagues of the editor; for instance,...
Why companies do not learn: HBR
https://hbr.org/2015/11/why-organizations-dont-learn Topics include mindset responsibility and time for planning and reflection
Podcast: NPR The hidden brain
Great podcast of about 25 minutes where they discuss psychology research. There is a theme for each episode, and my favorite part is when the host and Daniel Pink get 2 x 1 minute each to present a relevant research article on the topic. First episode was about...
20 cognitive biases that influence your decisions
Unfortunately made as a graphic, but worthwhile remembering! http://www.businessinsider.com/cognitive-biases-that-affect-decisions-2015-8?utm_source=feedly
“Rethinking Management Scholarship” From editor in AMJ 2014
What they now want to publish. in short: The excitement comes from the balanced interpretation of the mission “to publish empirical research that tests, extends, or builds management theory and contributes to management practice.” In broader discussions on management...
The limitation of the P-value: Nature article: Scientific method: Statistical errors
Easy to read article in Nature covering the severe limitation of the P-value and explains why P-fishing is a dangerous road. The key take-away is that while the P-value can say something about the probability of the a specific null hypothesis in a given data; it does...
B-Schools Aren’t Bothering to Produce HR Experts -HBR
The point is summed up in this paragraph: The lack of research interest in HR stems partly from carving up the topic into so many subfields. There are separate associations for labor economists, sociologists, and psychologists that look at the same problems, but these...
The importance of research design
I have had my first graduate class in Methodology, and have thus been primed to focus on potential flaws in research design. No wonder then, that when an article called: "Making it all up – The behavioral science Scandal" appeared in my facebook timline, I clicked,...
NYT article on how foreign temporary labour can cause bitter feelings
The article tells the story of how companies like Toys R Us hire foreign temporary labour from India, to learn the tasks for local employees, and then ship all the jobs abroad, firing the US workers. This does not help create a good work environment. Take away for me:...
De som blir igjen etter en nedbemanning
Elin Ørjasæther skriver om hvordan det stort sett går bra med de som blir igjen, SÅ LENGE bedriften har gjort en god jobb med å forklare HVORFOR de nedbemanner, og kriterinene de har brukt. Når man forstår tanken bak, er det lettere å akseptere det. Hun viser også at...
Empathy and perspective taking
Empathy is getting a lot of critical attention now, Paul Bloom from Yale has given several talks on the topic, where is tagline is: “I am against it”.. his argument is that empathy is in part sympathy, and together with the fact that we have more sympathy for those...
The fall of Nokia – The INSEAD perspective
An article from INSEAD about research into the reasons why Nokia fell from market dominance to insignificance within the mobile market, in just a few years. To quote the opening paragraph: "Nokia’s fall from the top of the smartphone pyramid is typically put down to...
The time paradox
How we see time, the future, the past and present dictate how we live and see the world. In this book Philip Zimbardo puts it all in perspective. Do also see the books website at: http://www.thetimeparadox.com/ For a brief, but informative introduction, look at...
How to publish.. according to AMJ
Publishing is a craft, like so many others. A series of five articles in Academy of Management Journal, where various editors come with recommendation for how to approach each part of the process from design to the final article. Publishing in AMJ—Part 1: Topic Choice...
Want to catch up on statistics?
Statistics as a field is developing fast; and less you use it regularly, one tends to forget 🙂 Coursera offers a course to help you catch up, or learn for the first time. https://www.coursera.org/course/statistics
Science Isn’t Broken
Worth reading; explains why scientific results are not as clear cut and easy to draw conclusions from as many newspapers would want. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/
The Science of Everyday Thinking
This MOOC is one of my favorites, may take it again, just to watch the interviews they have with the researchers who have really shaped social psychology in the past decades. The interviews include: Elizabeth Loftus, Richard Nisbett and Daniel Kahneman. Fun lectures...
Four sources of happiness
Four great lectures on sources of happiness, and how many of us have a counter productive attitude to the pursuit. The four cover sensory pleasures, material wealth, romantic relationships and children. Each held by brilliant people, including professors Paul Bloom,...
Charming and engaging 6 minute lecture on why we work.
Charming and engaging 6 minute lecture on why we work.. and the importance of having something meaningful to do.
Scrivener … a better way to write
Microsoft word dominates the world of word processing. Completely. However, this does not mean it is the only, or the best for every task that requires writing. When asked what tools he used, Dan Ariely strongly recommended Scrivener, where one can easily organize,...