AOM 2010 Schedule of Interest
It is always the case with good conferences that there are more sessions of interest than there is time to see them, however frustrating that might be.
Category: Professorship
AOM 2010 Pre-Conference Chugging Along
AOM 2010 Conference Coverage Pre-Conference 1 | Pre-Conference 2 | Planned Schedule Monday Live-Blog | Post-Conference First, the good. There’s wireless access in each conference hotel. Second, the bad. It’s very limited in users,...
Academy of Management Conference Upcoming Live-Blogging
The Academy of Management 2010 conference is coming up in a week, and I plan to give live updates of presentations.
Deconstructing the News Media to Learn Statistics
Use poorly constructed figures in the news media to learn or teach statistics! Because there are certainly plenty of them.
Way Better Than an Hour Long Powerpoint
I recently came across a fairly unique presentation format called Ignite! The basic premise is well captured by its tag line, “enlighten us, but make it quick.” Speakers have 5 minutes to present 20 slides that advance automatically every 15 seconds.
A Dangerous Direction for Electronic Employee Monitoring
Northern Arizona University is implementing a system by which class attendance is tracked by scanning students as they walk into a classroom. The article is a little light on detail, but from what I can piece together, student ID cards will be implanted with an RFID chip (similar to the technology used in current US passports) which can be read from a distance. Thus, when you walk in the door, a sensor detects your student ID and automatically registers you attendance.