Enhancing Relevance of Research: POMS 2015 Plenary
Enhancing Relevance of Research: POMS 2015 Plenary
Mike Toffel
Harvard Business School
Enhancing Relevance of Research
My agenda
2. Create knowledge
Prof. Stuart Graham Prof. Aaron (Ronnie) Chatterji Prof. Jody Freeman
Learning what’s relevant to practice (5/6)
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Learning what’s relevant to practice (6/6)
Develop an sounding board of practitioners
How to enhance research relevance
Conferences:
1. Facilitate interchanges between scholars and managers
Journals:
1. Accelerate publication for timely results
2. Provide writers to co-develop and place short
translational articles
3. Provide editors to ensure clarity of managerial
summaries, with free access at journal website
Final thoughts (1/3)
Are there tradeoffs to being more relevant?
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