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How Scientific Communication Can Spread Misinformation

The Horizons Tracker

What’s more, the authors highlight that most researchers today get their information and access the literature through search engines and recommender systems that can create a filter bubble. It is not without costs, however, as the peer-review process is usually removed in the rush to print.

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The Under-Representation Of Women As First Authors

The Horizons Tracker

The courses covered social science; humanities; science, technology, engineering and mathematics; and other. The representation of female authors on syllabi was lower than representation of females as authors in the peer-reviewed literature or in the workforce.

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The Countries with the Boldest Business Leaders

Harvard Business Review

This accords with other, peer-reviewed research that shows a connection between displaying confidence and being perceived as competent. (If We found a highly significant correlation (r= 0.936 sig.000 If you would like to participate in this survey to get a sense of your preference for engaging in bold leadership, you can do so here.).

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Overcoming Fragmentation in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

America is a nation of innovators and entrepreneurs. Streamlining quality of care can be difficult, which is why we’ve incorporated the use of engineering principles to improve our quality outcomes, safety, and service. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Addressing Uneven Quality.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo''s CEO, ended the company''s work-from-home policy to foster a more collaborative, innovative environment. Lead by example.

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Who's the Best at Innovating Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

Most companies put innovation at the top of their agendas. But how many devote the energy and resources it takes to build innovation into the values, processes, and practices that rule everyday activity and behavior? Not many, as we argued when we launched the Innovating Innovation Challenge in October. Fail Forward.