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Legal Knowledge: The Last Great Untapped Source of Business Competitive Advantage

The modern business environment is more heavily regulated than ever before. What if managers could turn their legal obligations into value-generating opportunities? Organizations are on a near-perpetual...

Robert C. Bird | 4 Apr 2025

Cultural Learning is a Human Capital Challenge Schools Cannot Ignore

In my forthcoming book Cultural Learning in Urban Schools and Minority Serving Institutions, I explore one of the most urgent human capital challenges in the American workforce today: how to staff K-16...

Tiffany Brown | 3 Apr 2025

Why Bank Capital Matters: A Look at Its Evolution Through History

Banks rely on two main sources to fund their lending and investment activities: debt and equity capital. Over the past two centuries, banks have increasingly operated with less equity capital, yet maintaining...

Simon Amrein | 28 Mar 2025

Wine for the Life of the World

Whether you’re a wine connoisseur or not, you’ve likely had a moment at a party or a dinner where someone poured you a glass and expected that you would know what to do next. Give it a swirl, smell...

Mark Scarlata | 26 Mar 2025

The Invincible Gender Gap in Political Ambition

Women in politics are everywhere. Vice President Kamala Harris quickly emerged as the Democratic nominee when Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race in Summer 2024. Republican Nikki Haley was...

Richard L. Fox, Jennifer L. Lawless | 25 Mar 2025

Getting Deterrence Right:  Theory, Research, and Policy on the Punishment of Crime

Deterrence has long served as a justification for legal punishment of crime.  The logic?  Fear of punishment will cause individuals, groups, organizations, and the like to reduce their criminal...

Mark C. Stafford, Daniel P. Mears | 21 Mar 2025

Culture, healthcare, and mortality meet

This blog celebrates publication of Facing death across cultures, a book four years in the making, begun as the pandemic first erupted. Inspiration for the book germinated two decades ago, when I was...

Stephen Henry Fox | 19 Mar 2025

Dominance Through Division: Group-Based Clientelism in Japan

Japan is a democracy, yet electoral competition is utterly dominated by a single party.  For sixty-six of the past seventy years, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled Japan’s government. ...

Amy Catalinac | 18 Mar 2025

Navigating Organizational Control in a New Era of Work

The way we work has undergone a seismic shift over the past decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic acting as the latest catalyst for unprecedented change. Workplaces around the world are now defined by virtual...

Markus Kreutzer, Jorge Walter | 17 Mar 2025

Moving along the First Global Empire

We live now in a time in which more and more people vouch for building up walls and barriers to deter the movement of people as it is seen with suspicion; as if mobility were the cause of all contemporary...

Adolfo Polo y La Borda | 14 Mar 2025

Why don’t we see more autistic people in academia?

When I was a little girl, bullied by my peers and misunderstood by my teachers, I couldn’t wait to be a grown-up. I dreamed of my future life as a professor, filling my brain with facts and my shelves...

Sandra Thom-Jones | 13 Mar 2025

A Religion of Peace and Quiet? Islamic Nonviolence Between Justice and Quietism

What makes ‘a religion of peace’? This rarely-explained and occasionally maligned phrase has become a commonplace in 21st century speechcraft. Puzzlingly, it is rarely applied in a comparatively straightforward...

Tom Woerner-Powell | 13 Mar 2025