Day archives: April 13th, 2013

Draft Paper – The Political Foundations of Scarce and Unstable Credit

Preliminary Conference Draft – The Political Foundations of Scarce and Unstable Credit, by Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen Haber, March 2013 – presented April 9, 2013 With respect to banking crises, economists have constructed models capable of explaining such events – despite their undesirable consequences – but those models cannot explain why the influences they …

Subjects: Government Documents

Paper – The Downfall of Extroverts and the Rise of Neurotics – The Dynamic Process of Status Allocation in Task Groups

Paper – The Downfall of Extroverts and the Rise of Neurotics – The Dynamic Process of Status Allocation in Task Groups, by Corrine Bendersky and Neha Parikh Shah, Academy of Management Journal, AMJ-2011-0316.R3. “We advance previous research that has associated extraversion with high status and neuroticism with low status in newly-formed task groups by examining …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Book review – The Invisible Playground: Phone Phreaking and the Criminalization of Curiosity

LA Times Book Review by Jason Brown of Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell by Phil Lapsley “Lapsley’s book is the definitive history of the Golden Age of “phone phreaking” in the 1960s and 70s, when these quirks in the system were the basic tools used …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Interview explores topic of new book – Givers vs. Takers: The Surprising Truth about Who Gets Ahead

Givers vs. Takers: The Surprising Truth about Who Gets Ahead. April 10, 2013. Knowledge@Wharton “A colleague asks you for feedback on a report. A LinkedIn connection requests an introduction to one of your key contacts. A recent graduate would like an informational interview. New research from Wharton management professor Adam Grant reveals that how you …

Subjects: Knowledge Management