Supply Chain Management: A Public Sector Perspective
This book provides practical insight into how to improve the effectiveness, resilience, and agility of supply chain operation in the public domain.
Research
A Learning Agenda for Community-Driven Development: Responding to Complex Contextual, Evaluation, and Inference Challenges
Governments and nongovernmental organizations around the world utilize Community-Driven Development (CDD) approaches to address complex and overlapping development challenges.
Leadership Perspective: What Makes Leadership Development Impactful? Exploring a Whole-Person Approach
In our Harvard Business Review article published on February 28, 2023, “What Makes Leadership Development Programs Succeed,” we unveiled the pivotal factors distinguishing impactful leadership develop
The role of positive emotion in harmful health behavior: Implications for theory and public health campaigns
Meta-analyses have concluded that positive emotions do not reduce appetitive risk behaviors (risky behaviors that fulfill appetitive or craving states, such as smoking and excessive alcohol use).
Teaching Competition and Cooperation in Civic Education
Civic education in the nation's public schools has suffered neglect in recent years. In the 1960s, by no means a golden age, students usually took three civics courses in high school.
Creating student leaders through civics
Building on the literature of student leadership development, Natalie Sew, Adrianne Billingham Bock, and Danielle Allen share an approach to civic education: Deeper Civic Learning.
Leadership Perspective: Leaders’ Psychological Bravery
Much has been written about the importance of psychological safety (Edmondson & Lei, 2014).
Workplace masculinity contests and culture
We propose that a key reason why the workplace gender revolution has stalled (England, 201010) is that work remains the site of masculinity contests among men.
A More Perfect Union: Meaning in the Preamble of the United States Constitution
The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America contains language that is incredibly meaningful to some, misunderstood by many, and in need of periodic revisitation for all.
Inter-city collaboration: Why and how cities work, learn and advocate together
City governments are at the forefront of public problem-solving.
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