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When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

Harvard Business Review

You can see what he means: our capacity to produce data on everything requires packaging; otherwise, it is like finding oneself in a library where all the books have been disassembled into piles of paragraphs, sentences and words. But what about peer review? Many findings are entirely implausible.”.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business Review

This is because promotions and salary increases at most business schools are primarily based on professors’ number of peer-reviewed, “A” journal publications (or those appearing in journals with the highest impact factor, or frequency of citation-counts).