The Reluctant Manager

Reluctant Sociologist

Socio 20 DOI: Between 1999 and 2004 only one article appeared in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, or Social Forces using primary data collected with Web-based research techniques. Since then there have been only a handful of studies published in these core sociology journals drawing on Web-based surveys or other forms of Web-based data. The use of Internet-ba...

Moving companies reluctant

The Academic Council voted 30-19 against a proposal that would have restored the opportunity for evening exams. The result of this decision, reached during a closed meeting yesterday afternoon in the C.C.E., means a continuation of the current policy of the 8-9:30 a.m. Tuesday-Thursday exam period. The Council rejected the pro­ posal though the results of a Student Government survey, com­ plete...

Manager - Coaching the Rookie Manager

In last January’s Manager column, “Fear of Trying: The Plight of the Rookie Project Manager,” Roger Pressman asked a question critical to the future of our profession: “So, how do we grow a good project manager? What do we teach the rookie who has just been appointed to lead her first software project?” Instead of answering this question directly, Pressman focused his article on four key skills...

Max Planck : the reluctant revolutionary

ACCORDING to the standard story, which is unfortunately still found in many physics textbooks, quantum theory emerged when it was realized that classical physics predicts an energy distribution for black-body radiation that disagrees violently with that found experimentally. In the late 1890s, so the story continues, the German physicist Wilhelm Wien developed an expression that corresponded re...

The reluctant patient: Parkinson's disease.