Tag Archives: Research & Development

This GIBS study highlights practical strategies for conducting rigorous, interdisciplinary research that addresses real-world challenges and ensures research relevance beyond academia: Title: Doing Research on Real world challenges by Prof Helena Barnard

ABSTRACT There are often calls for scholars to do more practically relevant research, but there is little guidance on how to do that. Doing work dealing with real-world challenges is a tough task, often requiring an interdisciplinary approach. I offer six strategies to help scholars. It is important to care about the challenge as this […]
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Bridging the gap between business school research and policymaking (FT)

How does business school research shape how our world is governed? Overton, a start-up that tracks the impact of academic research on policy, has some answers. It is the world’s largest database of policy documents, guidelines, think-tank publications and working papers, containing more than 13mn items. The fully searchable resource allows researchers, experts and policymakers […]
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There’s no good alternative to investing in R&D

By: Anne Marie Knott April 17, 2018 Source: https://hbr.org Even companies that claim to have a long-term orientation worry about whether R&D is worth the investment. Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage […]
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