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Mindful Learning: A Moderator of Gender Differences in Mathematics Performance
Past research has demonstrated that males outperform females in mathematics (Hyde, J. S., Fennema, E., & Lamon, S. J., Psychol Bull 107:139–155, 1990a). Research has also shown that encouraging mindful learning–l...
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Oikonomia Versus Chrematistike: Learning from Aristotle About the Future Orientation of Business Management
As a philosopher, whose theory about economics and business is systematically connected to a moral and political philosophy, Aristotle provides a rich conceptual framework to reflect upon personal well-being, ...
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The Modern Corporation and the Idea of Freedom
While the idea of freedom lies at the heart of our economic system, academic research has neglected to connect theories of the firm to freedom theory. To fill this void, the authors delineate two archetypes of...
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Introducing This Book and Humanistic Management
It seems virtually impossible today to open a newspaper without finding articles about corporate predators stalking the planet with unethical and sometimes bluntly illegal acts. Companies are involved in human...
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bracNet: Bridging the Digital Divide – Covering Bangladesh with Wireless Broadband Access
Khalid Quadir sipped on his coffee at Crema Café near Harvard Square. He had just returned from a long trip around the world, meeting with potential business partners, and now, back in Cambridge, MA, he was re...
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Conclusions
Throughout this book, our authors have reconstructed and examined ethical theories from various traditions in search of practicable models for a contemporary humanistic ethics. They had been asked to pay speci...
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Novo Nordisk – Making a Difference in Diabetes Treatment
A stormy wind can be disastrous in nature. It can tear off the branches of trees, rip off the leaves of plants, and uproot seedlings, leaving the fields as empty spaces of lost hope. Yet, despite the stormiest...
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Concluding Remarks
We live in a world of multiple crises. We struggle to make sense of the financial turmoil and the ensuing bailouts. We witness constantly increasing inequalities between and within countries. While hunger, pov...
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Introduction
Globalization was yesterday (Dasgupta and Kiely, 2006). Today we are increasingly facing a world of “globality,” that is, a state of affairs where a global impact of individual actions, local business practice...
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Aristotle’s Economic Ethics
Aristotle has in recent years enjoyed much attention in business and management journals (Collins, 1987; Dyck and Kleysen, 2001; Solomon, 2004; Wijnberg, 2000). Whether in relation to total quality management ...
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ABN AMRO REAL – A New Bank for a New Society
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference," said Robert Frost in his poem "The road not taken" in 1918 (Frost, 2002, p. 270). The road not take...
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Toward a More Humanistic Governance Model: Network Governance Structures
This conceptual article suggests a reexamination of current governance structures, specifically those of unitary boards after the financial crisis of 2008. We suggest that the existing governance structures ar...
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ABN AMRO REAL — a New Bank for a New Society
‘Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference,’ said Robert Frost in his poem ‘The road not taken’ in 1918 (Frost, 2002, p. 270). The road not take...
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Conclusion: Living Alternatives — Banking with Integrity
As history tells, our global society has yet to learn how to deal effectively with the recurring phenomenon of financial crises. Considering strict regulatory approaches, researchers concluded already in 2002 ...
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Introduction
In medicine, an illness is diagnosed by reading signs and symptoms. One way for the doctor to gain a higher degree of confidence in the diagnosis is to check whether there is a family history of similar condit...
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Seeing What We Know, Knowing What We See: Challenging the Limits of Visual Acuity
Ageism has resulted in overstated expectations regarding the inevitable deterioration in human capabilities, such as visual perception, with age (Rowe and Kahn in Science, 237, 143–149, 1987; Grant in Health and ...
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Could the 2008 US financial crisis have been avoided with network governance?
Banks failed in 2008 because individuals with knowledge of risks were not connected to individuals who had the incentive and power to take corrective action. Evidence of this problem is provided by reports fro...
