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Society’s contract with universities: Academic freedom for “truth”

May 31, 2011August 19, 2024

I very much enjoyed the speech of Minister A.-C. Lyon (“Conseillère d’Etat, Cheffe du Département de la formation, de la jeunesse et de la culture du Canton de Vaud”) today …

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Why managers often have variable compensation and not physicians – and whether variable compensation is good

May 28, 2011August 19, 2024

At the May 26th HEC centennial debate on responsible management, Dr. Schwab formulated an implicit criticism to managerial incentives by asking why managers should benefit from variable compensation (bonuses) and …

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On replicability as another dimension of responsible research

May 27, 2011August 19, 2024

In a recent post, I discussed the issue of responsible research (see “On responsible research”). I would like to add the issue of replicability of (scientific) findings which I believe …

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On responsible research

May 21, 2011August 19, 2024

Professors at business schools increasingly engage in discussions of business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) or, more generally, responsible management. It seems to me that our first obligation would …

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Managerially relevant research

May 20, 2011August 19, 2024

In a conversation at last week-end’s Sumantra Ghoshal conference on managerially relevant research at LBS, Isabel Fernandez-Mateo (LBS) and I were reflecting about the meaning for us of managerially relevant …

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