By: Geoffrey F. Dick I have been teaching online, on and off, for about 30 years, in many subject areas at all tertiary levels. So you would expect that moving my face to face classes to online during the pandemic would have presented me with minimal challenges, right? Not so – there was a big […]
The Evolving Intelligent Society and Emerging Challenges
Sudhi Ranjan Sinha will be a keynote at the 2020 DSI Annual Conference taking place November 21 – 23 online. As prelude to his keynote, he offers the following: Today, we live in the Algorithmic Age and have been doing so for some time now. The pervasiveness of technology in every walk of life […]
Writing a Great Case
While writing a great case has some similarities with empirical research that is based on case study methodology, there is a major difference between them. Case based empirical research is focused on understanding why a business condition exists, while a case is used as a learning tool. […]
Book Review for “The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox”
Edited by Wendy K. Smith, Marianne W. Lewis, Paula Jarzabkowski, Ann Langley Oxford University Press, Hardcover, ISBN: 9780198754428, 593 pages, 2017 Mehmet G. Yalcin, Ph.D. Keywords: paradox, dialectics, dualities “The linguistic origin of the word paradox derives from two Greek words para (beyond) and doxa (belief); a paradox, therefore, is one that is incredible, absurd, […]
Update Your Assumptions: How Ph.D. Students Can Achieve Success During their Ph.D. Program Studies in a Business Field
Feature Editor: Varun Grover VGrover@walton.uark.edu A key challenge of the Ph.D. experience is that many highly qualified students have a disconnect on the purpose of a Ph.D. in a business field in the first place. This is a serious problem because such disconnects increase the likelihood of students dropping out of their Ph.D. programs, increase […]
Call for Papers for Special Issue on Enhancing Business School Courses through Game-Based Pedagogy
Guest Editors: Yi-Su Chen, Barbara Klein, and Joy Beatty | University of Michigan – Dearborn Background: The incorporation of games into teaching and learning in business school courses holds the potential for enhancing students learning and retention. From their earliest days, humans learn naturally through play and games; and these approaches may enhance learning even […]
51st Annual Conference Decision Sciences in the Age of Connectivity
DECISION SCIENCES INSTITUTE 51st ANNUAL CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO, CA NOVEMBER 21-23, 2020 Decision Sciences in the Age of Connectivity Understanding the challenges and expanding the opportunities of the connected business world The rapid advancements in connectivity enabled by technologies such as cloud computing and internet of things have brought about a fundamental change in how […]
Two Keynotes to Highlight 2019 Conference
Keynote or plenary speakers add value, offer expertise and insight, and often inspire audiences. At this year’s 2019 DSI Annual Conference, two keynote sessions scheduled plan to do just that. Rahul Basole will open with his address titled “Strategy and Structure: Visualizing Complex Ecosystems” taking place on Saturday, November 23. Following on Sunday, Anubhav Shrivastava […]
Consortia Continue to Offer Professional Development Opportunities at Annual Conference
Very early on, Board members of the American Institute for Decision Sciences, now the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), knew offering professional development opportunities at the annual conferences was important to add value to its program. Today, workshops, panel discussions and consortia continue that tradition. Four consortia are once again offered at the 2019 DSI Annual […]
DSI to Offer over 40 Workshops, Panels at Conference
At this year’s annual conference, DSI is proud to offer over 40 professional development workshops, panels and tutorial sessions. Many are new to the program this year. Below is a brief description of many of the workshops to be found in the conference schedule. Be sure to highlight several of these on your personal schedule. […]
