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Category Archives: President’s Notes
A Wandering Mind is a Busy Mind
A couple of weeks ago we blogged about taking contemplative time to find innovative solutions. Along the same theme, I wanted to visit another interesting behavior: the wandering mind. A friend shared a Wall Street Journal article that explores how a wandering mind can lead to creative insights. Today, more than ever, innovators are eager [...]
Also posted in Miscellaneous, President's Notes, Technology & Development Tagged aha moment, brain studies, Creativity, Dr. John Kounios, Drexel University, Kalina Christoff, lightbulb moment, Mark Jung-Beeman, mind wandering, Northwestern University, productive thinking, productivity behavior, reasearch on mind wandering, scholarly research, thought process, University of British Columbia, Wall Street Journal Leave a comment
Vote on the Social Sciences’ Hardest Unsolved Problems
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about the April 10th Hardest Problems Symposium that took place at Harvard University. The one day symposium brought together twelve panelists from top universities to share, in their view, the toughest social science challenges. The panelists identified the top thirty hardest, most important, unsolved problems in social science [...]
Also posted in Conferences and Presentations, Miscellaneous, President's Notes Tagged Ann Swidler, Cambridge Massachusetts, Claudia Goldin, Emily F. Oster, emily oster, Gary King, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Hilbert Problems, Indira Foundation, james fowler, James H. Fowler, Nassim N. Taleb, nassim taleb, Niall C. D. Ferguson, Nicholas A. Christakis, nicholas christakis, Nick Bostrom, Peter S. Bearman, Richard J. Zeckhauser, richard zeckhauser, roland fryer, Roland G. Fryer, Social sciences, social sciences division, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Susan Carey, Unsolved Problems Leave a comment
Research to Consider: The NFL’s Draft is Broken
via The highly anticipated National Football League Draft begins tomorrow evening (4/22/10) and, for the first time, will be televised during prime time on ESPN and NFL Network. This is the NFL’s most important off-season event and followed closely by fans around the world. But, two scholars suggest the process is flawed because teams significantly [...]
Social Sciences’ “23 Hardest Problems”
Image via Wikipedia I received a call from Nick Nash, Indira Foundation, a few minutes ago telling me about a very interesting symposium tomorrow. Harvard University’s Division of Social Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences along with the Indira Foundation are convening a symposium of multidisciplinary experts to identify the world’s hardest unsolved [...]
Also posted in Conferences and Presentations, President's Notes, Scholarship Tagged Ann Swidler, Cambridge Massachusetts, Claudia Goldin, Emily F. Oster, Gary King, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Hilbert Problems, James H. Fowler, Nassim N. Taleb, Niall C. D. Ferguson, Nicholas A. Christakis, Nick Bostrom, Peter S. Bearman, Richard J. Zeckhauser, Roland G. Fryer, Social sciences, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Susan Carey 2 Comments
Putting your feet up on the desk helps produce results … I love it!
Last year I asked our managers to schedule a 30 minute “contemplative meeting” every day on their calendars. I realized that I was much more innovative when I scheduled this meeting with myself than when I double booked meetings all day. While I thought I was getting more done by over scheduling, I was actually [...]
Also posted in Miscellaneous, President's Notes Tagged aha moment, Caterina Fake, Caterina Fake Stewart Butterfield, creative thinking at work, distracted at work, driven by distraction, flickr founder, Kalina Christoff, micro-blogging, productive at work, productiviy in the work place, research on productivity, work ethic, working late 3 Comments
APE 2010: What We Don’t Know We Don’t Know
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of speaking at Academic Publishing Europe (APE 2010) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences about article level metrics. APE 2010 was a very interesting conference with a wonderfully diverse audience. The sharing was open and the discussions were quite frank, especially considering the number of competitors in the [...]
Also posted in Conferences and Presentations, President's Notes, Technology & Development Tagged academic publishing europe, academic technology, APE 2010, APE 2011, Arnoud de Kemp, article level metrics, Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, editorial research, eLibrary, Gregg Gordon, librarian research, publishing conference, scholarly communication, scholarly research, scientific publications, SSRN Links 2 Comments
SSRN’s iPhone App, iSSRN, is Available
iSSRN, our free iPhone App, was released recently. It provides instant access to the latest Social Science and Humanities research in the SSRN eLibrary from scholars around the world. iSSRN is available from Apple‘s iTunes store. iSSRN allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to search over 250,000 papers and read the full text of the [...]
Also posted in Miscellaneous, President's Notes, Technology & Development, What's new Tagged Apple, AppStore, iPhone, iSSRN, iTouch, iTunes 7 Comments
Humbled by Repository Ranking :)
Not to sound boastful but I was wonderfully surprised to see that SSRN was number one on the current Ranking Web of World Repositories. The ranking is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain and includes a [...]
Also posted in Miscellaneous, President's Notes Tagged CSIC, Institutional Repositories & Discipline Repositories Leave a comment
Weekly Announcements – October 26, 2009
Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Erasmus Law Review Upgrades Its LSN Partners in Publishing Journal We are pleased to announce that Erasmus Law Review has upgraded its Partners in Publishing Journal within the Legal Scholarship Network (LSN), which includes, but is not limited to, a customized abstracting eJournal distributed to SSRN subscribers. View [...]
Also posted in President's Notes, Recent Announcements Tagged China Academy of Financial Research, Economics, Education, Florida, George Mason University, Harvard Business School, Law, Law school, Research, Social Science Research Network, Social sciences, Stetson University College of Law, Tampa Florida, United States, US, Washington DC Leave a comment
Kauffman Foundation’s Economic Bloggers Forum
As many of you know, we have worked closely with The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to create our Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (ERPN). Earlier this year, they held the first Economics Bloggers Forum and I was fortunate to be able to participate. It was a wonderful event and a great opportunity to meet and [...]
Also posted in Conferences and Presentations, Networks, President's Notes, Scholarship Tagged Building the Field of Entrepreneurship Research, Economics, Economics Bloggers Forum, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Network, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Gregg Gordon, Kauffman Foundation, Renewal of Entrepreneurial Capitalism Leave a comment
Old World Meets New Technology
I am very fortunate to love what I do, love the people with which I work, and have the experiences I get to have. My work includes wonderful discussions with very intelligent, interesting people that are very often in interesting academic settings. Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to visit Oxford University, the oldest [...]
Also posted in President's Notes Tagged Amy Brand, Bodleian Library, Malmaison Hotel, ORA, Oxford University Research Archive, OxfordUniversity, Sally Rumsey, Wilma Minty Leave a comment
The Future of Business School